Day 407:

Robber Barrons

Every time Exxon pays off a politician to deny global warming people die. Same is true for pollution from pesticides, dirty cars, NRA guns etc. Look how big pharma kills folks by raising prices on drugs, by pushing Oxy, by pushing people off insurance. All facilitated and allowed because of payoffs to congress. Look at all the suicides from bankruptcy from medical debt, or from bank crashes.

Just because these companies dont go out and nerve gas people doesn’t mean that they are not killing people. Although sometimes they do actually go kill people, just usually in other countries, or they have our military do it, or the CIA. Read your history better. A lot of what our government does is to secure the interests of big companies in other countries.

The right wing doesn’t want to unify the working class, they want to keep it fractured, so they are busy fighting over guns, gays, and god, while the super rich turn into the mega rich. Its a very old, and well tested strategy in America that has been used many times with many groups.

We have had extreme concentration of wealth before, it was called the gilded age, and it required strong government intervention to prevent the break down of society (the new deal). This is not a new problem, just the current version of it.

Further Reading:

Experiments that ask children to draw a researcher show a greater proportion of women in sketches over time. In the 1960s and 1970s, 99.4% of children drew a male scientist. That proportion dropped to 72% between 1985 and 2016. By the 2010s, about one in three drawings portrayed a female scientist.

Nearly every member of Trump’s wildlife advisory board is a trophy hunter

MPs summon Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to give evidence on ‘catastrophic failures’ of Cambridge Analytica data breach

Yes, This Is Going to Be Worse Than Watergate

‘Utterly horrifying’: ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine

McConnell Remains Silent Over Trump’s Attacks on Mueller

As DeVos Faces Congress, Officials Say She Hid Plans to Overhaul Department

Conor Lamb got my first donation to a Democrat in 50 years. It’s time to stop Donald Trump.

Republicans dismiss legislation to protect special counsel

Trump’s presidency has prompted a new, nationwide college course on why democracies collapse

Russian Roulette review: as Joe Biden said, ‘If this is true, it’s treason’

Gingrich: Trump should stop going after Mueller on Twitter and ‘focus on being president’

Trump has openly discussed firing lawyer Ty Cobb: report

#DeleteFacebook movement gains steam after 50 million users have data leaked

Facebook’s auditors visited Cambridge Analytica’s offices but were told to stand down by UK authorities

Fifteen Years Ago, America Destroyed My Country

GOP Rep. Martha McSally Caught Posting Fake Compliments to Her Facebook Profile

GOP wants to flood politics with dark money using hidden “policy riders”

Key Republican appears indifferent to Cambridge Analytica revelations

Whistleblower: We tested Trump slogans in 2014

Cambridge Analytica whistleblower to testify to House Democrats on Facebook data operation

As Facebook Ire Grows, Senator Says Zuckerberg ‘Ought to Be Subpoenaed’

It’s not your imagination. Trump is getting worse.

Tribe: Trump ‘orchestrating a massive cover-up’ worse than Nixon

Stormy Daniels’ Lawyer: Fox News won’t book me

Mueller’s Interest in Obstruction Is Probably Only the Tip of the Iceberg

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Tools of change:

Feel like this is all a bunch of bullshit? Want to do something about it?

Calling your government representative:

Call your Senator
Call your House Rep (Or use this spreadsheet)
Call your Governor
Call your Attorney General
Or try this website
Fax Congress here (free!)

You can also use 5Calls.org if you are having a hard time figuring out what to say.

Tell them in no uncertain terms that you want them to fight to stop Trump from doing these things. Tell them you will be watching them closely on how they vote, and will hold them accountable during the next election if they cave to Trump. You can also call other states congress people and threaten to donate to their opponent if they don’t do what you want.

Phone Bank for Progressive Candidates:

https://www.grassrootspb.com/

Call the White House:

202-456-1111

Call the “White House”:

Use this website to call one of Trump’s many properties he has not put into a blind trust yet, and let them know how you feel (be polite, they are workers just like us, but be firm).

Do a little Slacktivism:

Send Some Text Messages for progressive causes (I know it says textforbernie, but its for a range of progressive candidates) Or you can have your texts turned into faxes by the ResistBot

Go to a town hall and talk to your congress person in person:

Check when the next town hall is here

Monitor your congressperson:

Keep track of how your senator is voting on cabinet picks here, so you can call them up and give them hell if they vote for any of these worthless fuckers.

See how your elected representatives are voting for or against Trump.

Elections!

Also be sure to keep track if you live in a district with an upcoming flip-able seat (flip to the left that is)

See if you have a special election in your area!

Is your mayor up for election? Find out, get involved!

Upcoming house votes:

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/

Upcoming senate bills:

http://www.senateseeker.com/vote.php?upcoming=true

Monitor Trumps Conflict of Interests:

From CNN of all people.

The Atlantic

General Guides:

Guidelines by former Congress staffers on how to get Congress to listen. https://www.indivisibleguide.com/

Run For Office!:

Want to run for office in your area to fight back, check this out for positions that are open in your area, how to register, and what you need to do to win office!

Remove the Corporate Democrats!:

Join the fight to clean out the democratic party: Justice Democrats!

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