Does your Representative support HR 1976, the Medicare for All Act of 2021? National Nurses United is organizing voters to call their Congressperson and ask them to join the 69% of Americans who support the same access to healthcare that most other developed nations already benefit from.
Call 202-953-4101. You’ll hear a short message about Medicare for All, then you’ll be connected to the Capital Switchboard. Ask to be connected to your Congressperson’s office. (If you don’t know who that is, they can help you figure it out!) Then you’ll be connected to their office, where you’ll either leave a message or speak with their office staff.
All you have to say is: “ My name is (name). I’m a constituent from (town/city). I’m calling in support of HR 1976, the Medicare for All Act.”
Only 41% of Americans are fully vaccinated, yet the daily number of people receiving the vaccine has dropped by half.
This isn’t over, and as mask mandates are lifted, it becomes more dangerous for those who aren’t vaccinated because they’re the ones who are going to get sick.
I know for a lot of these people there’s nothing you can say, but many people still believe that they have to pay for the vaccine, and that’s not true.
Make sure the people in your life know that the vaccine is FREE and available to them at an increasing number of locations.
This stark drop in daily administered doses of the vaccine is very concerning because only 36% of Americans are fully vaccinated.
This drop is not due to a lack of supply, but is due to vaccine hesitancy (some legitimate, some not so much) and outright conspiracy theories.
The result (and my main concern, especially as mask mandates are being lifted) is that the virus is being given more time to mutate past the point of the effectiveness of our current vaccines. This hasn’t happened yet, but it doesn’t need to happen at all.
We can end this, but we have to do it together.
If you know someone who hasn’t been vaccinated yet, please ask them to do so.
This is why today is enormous, and also just a first step. We start with this moment of accountability, and work to make it the norm, instead of an incredible rarity. We root ourselves in knowing that black lives matter, and work to ensure that our actions-and their impacts and outcomes- reflect that truth. When Black people are safe, we are all safe. When Black people are free, we are all free. That is why today matters to all of us, and why none of us can stop here.
The announcement made on the NRA’s website comes months after New York’s attorney general sued the organization over claims that top executives illegally diverted tens of millions of dollars for lavish personal trips, no-show contracts for associates and other questionable expenditures.
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Shortly after the announcement, New York Attorney General Letitia James said she would not allow the NRA to “evade accountability” or oversight.
If you are someone who likes to watch a lot of cop shows, I want you to ask yourself a few questions.
Why do all TV cops, even the good ones, hate Internal Affairs? Isn’t the job of Internal Affairs to root out the “bad cops”? Isn’t their job to make sure police follow the rules? Why is that presented as inherently evil or antagonistic?
Why do all TV cops, even the good ones, hate defense attorneys? Isn’t the defense attorney’s job to protect the rights of all citizens? Isn’t it their job to make sure police follow the law? Isn’t it their job to make sure everyone is treated fairly under the system? Why is that presented as inherently evil or antagonistic?
Why do all TV cops, even the good ones, get upset when citizens invoke their constitutional rights? Don’t those rights exist to ensure all citizens are treated fairly? Don’t they exist to ensure innocent people are not wrongfully incriminated? Why are citizens who invoke their rights presented as dishonest, untrustworthy, or antagonistic?
To be clear, I’ve watched Brooklyn 99 and enjoyed it. I was watching Elementary the other day. But even when I watch shows I like, I make a mental note every time a cop lies, breaks the law, subverts someone’s basic rights, or just generally acts like an asshole to the people the are meant to serve and protect.
How often are they called out on their behavior? How often are they punished for it? How often is it reinforced as correct by the narrative?
When I tell people to be critical of the media they consume that is what I mean. Not simply calling it terrible and moving on, but actually engaging thoughtfully, asking questions, and forming conclusions about what that media is trying to say to you. Then decide whether you want to keep listening, or if it will be better for you in the long run to move on.
Why do only the guilty people ever invoke their right to an attorney? I would invoke my right to an attorney.
Why are protections of innocent people’s rights only ever framed as “slowing the police down” and preventing them from really catching the bad guy? Why is it that every time an officer has an instinct to break the rules, they’re narratively vindicated?
It’s the same question as “but WHY do her superpowers require her to show so much skin?” A writer put that there.
“A House resolution calling on Vice President Pence to invoke constitutional authority to remove Trump from office was blocked by Republicans. However, the full House is set to hold a roll call vote on that resolution on Tuesday, and it is expected to pass.
"After that, Pelosi said Pence will have 24 hours to respond. Next, the House would proceed to impeachment. A vote could come Wednesday.”
Language becomes policy! If we say we have a “terrorism” problem (even a white one), lawmakers will give us “counterterrorism” solutions. All of those will expand policing & surveillance that will ultimately harm us.
On the contrary, if we call them white supremacists, naming their movement as what it is, it demands a solution specific to that problem.
Truth-telling. Reparations. Facing our history as a nation founded on white supremacy & dismantling it bit by bit.
“Terrorism” as a label is inherently dangerous in its vagueness. I understand why we all want to use the most extreme words to describe the most egregious violence.
White supremacists HAVE been terrorizing Black, brown, indigenous folks for centuries.
But we can’t decouple that term from the state apparatus it manifests: the war on terror. Mass surveillance. Targeting Muslims, South Asians, Black people, communists, etc.
+ the reason this term holds so much weight is precisely b/c white ppl use it against Black & brown ppl.
This was my first week using a journaling app called daygram, and I feel like in 30 years when someone asks me what it was like to live through this time, I should just show them this picture.
