Our first victory against trump!

Time to start celebrating ALL the small wins, because EVERY win means a lot, and every win helps us fight for the next one!

I think it’s important to note that this bill only failed because it needed 2/3rds majority - if it had needed only a simple majority, it would have passed.

I urge you to look up your MoC and see how they voted, then reach out to their office to either praise them or express your disgust with their vote. Part of the reason that MoCs start catering to more conservative voices is because those voices actually give them feedback. The left needs to start doing that too.

Where do you look to see the way members of congress voted on specific bills?

You can search the bill number and then search for your rep or other reps you’re interested in seeing. The bill in the article above is HR 9495.

Thank you very much. I always try to find stuff like this but lately my brain has been too fried

HI SO. This bill is going back on the docket on MONDAY 11/18 and this time will only need a simple majority to pass. That’s 220 votes. It got 245 this week. If there is any time to reach out to your MoC’s office, it’s now. I emailed my rep yesterday and plan on calling her office as well.

I work for a nonprofit and while this bill likely won’t affect my job, being that it’s a small hyper-regional organization, it WILL affect organizations like the ACLU and the SPLC. It could defund Planned Parenthood. That’s a Big Fucking Deal and not a power that we want to let Trump have.

Yes, this is an important update!

These are the Democratic Representatives who voted for the bill originally. If your Rep is on this list, PLEASE CALL THEIR OFFICE THIS WEEKEND.

Capital Switchboard: 202-224-3121

Our first victory against trump!

Time to start celebrating ALL the small wins, because EVERY win means a lot, and every win helps us fight for the next one!

I think it’s important to note that this bill only failed because it needed 2/3rds majority - if it had needed only a simple majority, it would have passed.

I urge you to look up your MoC and see how they voted, then reach out to their office to either praise them or express your disgust with their vote. Part of the reason that MoCs start catering to more conservative voices is because those voices actually give them feedback. The left needs to start doing that too.

Where do you look to see the way members of congress voted on specific bills?

You can search the bill number and then search for your rep or other reps you’re interested in seeing. The bill in the article above is HR 9495.

Thank you very much. I always try to find stuff like this but lately my brain has been too fried

HI SO. This bill is going back on the docket on MONDAY 11/18 and this time will only need a simple majority to pass. That’s 220 votes. It got 245 this week. If there is any time to reach out to your MoC’s office, it’s now. I emailed my rep yesterday and plan on calling her office as well.

I work for a nonprofit and while this bill likely won’t affect my job, being that it’s a small hyper-regional organization, it WILL affect organizations like the ACLU and the SPLC. It could defund Planned Parenthood. That’s a Big Fucking Deal and not a power that we want to let Trump have.

I'm curious, how does a bill that gets voted against in a super majority get brought back needing only a simple majority?

Last week, the House GOP pulled a move called “moving the bill on suspension.” This means they suspend the normal procedural rules, limit debate to only 40 minutes, disallow any amending of the proposed bill, and require a 2/3 majority to pass. This move is typically used for non-controversial formality type bills, such as bills to name post offices or recognize anniversaries or memorials. Because they failed to get 2/3 (289 votes) they’re not going to try that again and instead will try to get a simple majority (217 votes). It is easier for them to retain the 38 extra votes they have than for us to flip them.

HR 9495, as I mentioned above, gives the President and the Secretary of the Treasury the power to strip any nonprofit of its 501(c)3 status without any charges or due process, under the guise of preventing nonprofits from contributing to terrorism here or abroad. It would allow them to designate any nonprofit as “terrorism supporting” without providing ANY evidence or any recourse for the nonprofit to disprove the claim. This power will absolutely be weaponized against any organization that supports Palestine, that opposes law enforcement and Cop Cities, that supports abortion and facilitates abortion access, or that supports immigrants and provides immigration assistance. This is a Bad Bill and it blatantly violates the right of free speech granted to corporations under Citizens United.

Some good news: the vote last week was not the full House, there were 32 members not present (technically 33 but Matt Gaetz has since resigned so that number becomes 32). Additionally, the GOP just barely has the numbers on their own. They only fielded 204 votes in favor, 1 vote against, and 16 (now 15) not voting. The threshold is 217, they have 219.

SO. Here are your marching orders:

If you live in a district represented by a MoC who voted AGAINST the bill last week: contact their office, thank them for voting against it, express your concerns about it, and urge them to vote against it again. This includes people who live in KY-4 represented by Thomas Massie, who was the only GOP member to vote against the measure.

If you live in a district represented by a DEMOCRAT who voted FOR the bill: contact their office, let them know how disappointed you, as someone who just voted to re-elect them/voted for them in the past (whether this is true or not), are in their choice to violate the right of free speech, list your concerns about the specific organizations that will be affected, and urge them to change their vote next week.

If you live in the district of a DEMOCRAT who DIDN’T VOTE: contact their office, express your concerns about the bill and the specific organizations that may be impacted, and urge them to vote against it.

If you live in the district of a REPUBLICAN who DIDN’T VOTE: contact their office, express your concerns about how the bill violates the first amendment and represents government overreach into the affairs of private businesses, highlight that legislation regarding nonprofits and terrorism already exists and is effective, and urge them to vote against it. This includes people who live in North Dakota and are represented by Kelly Armstrong, who is part of a moderate Republicans caucus and can be considered flippable.

If you live in the district of the following REPUBLICANS who voted FOR the bill: contact their office, express your disappointment with their vote as someone who voted for them (whether this is true or not), express your concerns about how the bill violates the first amendment and represents government overreach into the affairs of private businesses, highlight that legislation regarding nonprofits and terrorism already exists and is effective, and urge them to flip their vote.

- Fitzpatrick, PA-1

- Chavez-DeRemer, OR-5

- Lawler, NY-17

- Kean Jr., NJ-7

- Valadao, CA-22

- Bacon, NE-2

- Molinaro, NY-19

- D’Esposito, NY-4

- Ciscomani, AZ-6

These are all MoCs who are part of that moderate caucus and are considered swing or lean dem votes by ProgressivePunch.

We need to flip as many of these votes as we can, and hold as many of these votes as we can, and the best way to do that is by telling your representative directly what you want. The bill goes back on the docket on Monday, but will likely not be voted on until Tuesday or Wednesday.

Our first victory against trump!

Time to start celebrating ALL the small wins, because EVERY win means a lot, and every win helps us fight for the next one!

I think it’s important to note that this bill only failed because it needed 2/3rds majority - if it had needed only a simple majority, it would have passed.

I urge you to look up your MoC and see how they voted, then reach out to their office to either praise them or express your disgust with their vote. Part of the reason that MoCs start catering to more conservative voices is because those voices actually give them feedback. The left needs to start doing that too.

Where do you look to see the way members of congress voted on specific bills?

You can search the bill number and then search for your rep or other reps you’re interested in seeing. The bill in the article above is HR 9495.

Thank you very much. I always try to find stuff like this but lately my brain has been too fried

HI SO. This bill is going back on the docket on MONDAY 11/18 and this time will only need a simple majority to pass. That’s 218 votes. It got 256 this week. If there is any time to reach out to your MoC’s office, it’s now. I emailed my rep yesterday and plan on calling her office as well.

I work for a nonprofit and while this bill likely won’t affect my job, being that it’s a small hyper-regional organization, it WILL affect organizations like the ACLU and the SPLC. It could defund Planned Parenthood. That’s a Big Fucking Deal and not a power that we want to let Trump have.

A brief moment of rationality from the bird place.

"Being alive is as special an occasion as it gets."

Stick the STICKERS. TO PLACES. DAMNIT

Oh that sticker comment CAME for me.

Use the notebooks you buy, don't just stack em!

A couple years ago, my grandfather had some health scares, got very sentimental about his grandchildren, and gave us all heirloom style gifts at Christmas. I say heirloom style because these were all old collector type things but didn’t have any sentimental or emotional value.

My gift was an original, still intact copy of Harper’s Magazine from 1851. It’s literally something that should be a museum piece. I keep it in a bubble mailer in my safe because it’s too fragile to be handled.

His explicit instructions when he gifted these items was to sell them for the money, but not until after he died, so that it would act as a gift to us twice. Which I think is the perfect philosophy for how these types of items should be preserved. I have no use for the book. It’s not even something I could safely display in my home. Selling or donating it is the only option, it by gifting it early and with explicit instructions to sell, he not only attached some amount of sentimentality to it, he also removed any potential future guilt of “my grandpa left this to me but I don’t want it.”

I think it's important to remember, as a rule of thumb, if you take advantage of a social service, it actually makes it easier for other people who need that service to access it. Most of the time, when these services get cut, it's because politicians will look at usage and say "see, no one is really using this thing, we can afford to trim the budget for food stamps by at least half". Whereas if you decide to step up and use these programs, even if you feel like you "don't really need it", at bare minimum it's another data point advocates can use to say "hey, look, people are using this thing, this is an important service we are providing, do not cut our funding".

I work at a nonprofit, and it is absolutely wild explaining to folks that being part of a program that reduces their energy bill actually helps us get funding to help even more people get energy bill savings.

You aren’t taking resources from anyone by using programs you qualify for. You are making a case for those programs being important enough to continue to exist and (in many cases) grow.

We live in a world so controlled by the idea of resource scarcity that we reason "If I get help, that must be taking help away from someone else!"

If nothing else, remember that you are entitled to that assistance because you pay for it! Social programs are funded by your tax dollars! And that often includes services provided by nonprofits, because a lot of our funding streams involve government grants.

Ask for help. The worst thing they can do is deny you. And even if they do, it still sends the message that these programs need to be expanded because people outside the cutoffs are still in need of their services.

trump dies of congestive heart failure before being sworn in charge to like cast to reblog

Something has to happen to JD Vance too so I'm extra charging

We will be banning the word "community" from political theory and forcing anarchists to describe a more complex plan than "hanging out with your buddies and giving them money sometimes"

writing advice for characters with a missing eye: dear God does losing an eyes function fuck up your neck. Ever since mine crapped out I've been slowly and unconsciously shifting towards holding my head at an angle to put the good eye closer to the center. and human necks. are not meant to accommodate that sorta thing.

other things I'm bitching about but which could still be useful as writing advice for 1 eyed characters:

2. they're going to favor their sighted side, obviously, but it doesn't always manifest in the way you think. when I walk down a hall I walk much closer to the wall on my sighted side than on my blind side. which is the opposite of how it might seem logical to do that bc it means the world at large is on your bad side, but the reason is I can't fucking See the wall if it's right next to me in the blind side and I end up knocking into it.

3. door frames and poles are my enemy. If your character is smart this will not be a problem but for me it is. I am King of walking into shit I could absolutely see but couldn't tell how far away from me it was. on this note, their blind side hand is getting bashed into every jutting out thing in a 5 mile radius.

4. having 0 depth perception is less of a big deal than you'd think it is. Especially with driving. I've become a Much safer and more wary driver because I can't tell how far the other cars are from me. however I fucking suck at parking now. because I can't tell how far the lines are from me either.

5. you know how people who lose limbs get phantom pains? that happens with eyes too but like. phantom sights. for me it's like. a lot of bugs. like every so often my brain will just put something suddenly skittering beside me there. hate that.

6. it is completely possible to "get stuck" somewhere because your ability to tell how wide a space is is just Gone. shopping isles especially where bumping something or Someone is matter of embarrassment or potentially breaking something. it can be legitimately paralyzing and also irritate everyone around you because they can tell there is Plenty of space for you to get your cart through even if you can't.

7. if the eye is still in their skull it can still be the normal kind of painful. Glares off of shiny surfaces causing weird sharp pains you can't figure out the cause of are genuinely one of gods greatest tests of my patience.

ily, menswear guy

Love watching the local news. There’s a turkey drive at the fairgrounds, there was a shooting at the mall, somebody saw a feral dog, there was a drag show yesterday, a new movie is coming out tomorrow, someone was caught impersonating a nurse, here’s a video of a guy in a clown costume. It’s gonna be cold tomorrow, finally.

You should watch your local news. Learn where the book drives are. Learn what your local Catholic charities did last week too late for you to volunteer.

much better footage of the haka that shut down parliament today

If you're having a bad day, just remember that it's going to be winter soon and imagine what will happen to all the Cybertrucks ❤️

Salt-rusted unprotected steel panels... Meltwater getting into poorly constructed and poorly isolated electronics... Stuck in snowdrifts that a real truck would have been able to deal with... Oh, those are indeed happy images. Yes indeed...

It's winter in the US is anything happening to all the cybertrucks

No snow here yet. Lots of Cybertrucks in my area, so I’ll keep an eye out.

Keep us updated I am so curious to see how they handle Normal Weather

There should be Cybertruck Winter, like Fat Bear Week. Where we see which cybertrucks fall first and which ones make it to the end in usable condition.

Dispatch from the far northern hemisphere and have witnessed a Cybertruck in the winter wilds.

We're early enough into the snow season in that the damage isn't obvious. My guess is that exposure to road salts are really going to destroy these ambulatory dumpsters, but we won't start to see that until spring. Road salt is difficult to impossible to get off in a regular car wash, and we know that Cybertruck can't handle even that.

On the one I saw, any metallic shine that the Cybertruck had was completely lost in a combination of cold winter temps, light street grunge, and lower ambient sunlight. It was the same color as my friend's early 2000s silver pickup truck. One of the big draws, imo, is that stainless steel panelling and to see it turn into the same shade of grey as one of the most popular truck colors twenty years ago would be disappointing to me. It's not special anymore.

Local Cybertruck enthusiasts who are salty dogs at winter driving have started vinyl wrapping their automotive basket cases. The trend seems to be to go from the door windows down, which gives them a beach cooler vibe that is similarly underwhelming.

They’re already having issues! The head lights are sunken in for some reason. This means there is a shelf to hold snow in front of the lights and block them.

Now, every car has to have the snow cleared off the headlights before you drive, but this is way worse. That shelf collects snow as you drive. People have to pull over and clear the snow off mid-drive because they lose their headlights.

WHY ARE THEY BUILT THAT WAY

Because the guy that designed them is an egomaniacal moron!

the lovely woman who owned kabosu, the shiba known as doge, should get to take a point blank shot at elon musk with the doohickey that killed shinzo abe

the front seat of the car is a type of confessional

i genuinely think that physically it’s easier to have hard conversations when you’re both facing forward, not having to look at each other. the catholic church knew this also

I love this so much

"Am I the asshole?" Friend you are a fucking champion of the working class. People will write stories in your honor.

Mexico is doing something like this right now in beaches of Mazatlán using música de banda to push back against the gentrification made by hotel owners. There are Mexicans who doesn’t like música de banda (me included) but tourist get so annoyed by the loud music that everyone is like “yeah, play it louder”.

Música de banda are like the gunshots against gentrification fr

Sending my most reliable corporate staffer to Connecticut to shut down a Christmas tree farm. Wish me luck

I keep sending them, but they don't come back. I really just need to shut down this farm. Do you think I should go check it out

Can I go with? My fiancé, one of your reliable corporate staffers, who I was supposed to marry January 1st hasn’t been answering my calls either

Good idea. I'm sure if you remind her of your lucrative upcoming business deal she'll come back.

#it turns out that there's only a fine line between a hallmark special and a horror film