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🏳️‍🌈 ✡️Online learning specialist/instructional designer. Grad student. Jazz nerd but also Fanilow. GenX Jew. Domestic violence survivor. They/them, no matter what the gov't says.

Now it’s up to all of us to continue the fight. As this bill returns to the House, make your voices heard. We say no to the largest role back in health care in our nation’s history, and the biggest transfer of wealth in modern times.

This bill would kick millions off their health insurance, and thousands will even lose their lives - unless we stop it in its tracks. Some Republicans are breaking ranks, showing it's not too late. Time to speak up!

It ys a such challenging, turbulent, scarye tyme. My greatest wisshe ys that you may fynde sum small moment of peace, delight, mirthe, pleasure, discoverye, connectioun, or fascinacioun that doth make yower day just a litel bettir. Ich wisshe thys for thee wyth all of myne hearte.

Rest is not a retreat from progress, it's the foundation that sustains it. It takes enormous fortitude to be aware of the truth and not be destroyed by it. So pay attention a little less (or focus on truths that are not demoralizing) to sustain the path forward.

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Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

Here's my script for calling for the resignation of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth & National Security Advisor Michael Waltz! Call ESPECIALLY your Republican representatives who are always bragging about loving the military! Feel free to send my script to your friends to use! 5calls.org

*Leave your full address if it's a voice mail. 

Here's the script I used: 

Hi, my name is [Constituent name] and l'm a constituent from [City & Zip Code]. 

I'm demanding that [Rep or Senator XYZ] call for the immediate resignation of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth & National Security Advisor Michael Waltz for having a classified conversation on a personal phone and a commercial messaging app. 

A recent Department of Defense memo specifically cited Signal as one example of an "unmanaged" messaging app that is not authorized to transmit non-public DOD information. 

Any Defense Secretary or National Security Advisor who carelessly uses a non-secure phone to have classified conversations is putting our troops at immeasurable risk. 

[Representative XYZ] must act to protect those military members who are putting their lives on the line for our defense.

Requiring a trans person to enter school public restrooms that match their sex at birth, not their gender identity, is absolutely a way to ensure harm comes to them. When I was in high school, suspected gay students were assaulted in the bathrooms. I can only imagine how a trans student is abused.

When you feel hopeless, take a break. Go outside. Call a friend. We don’t have to each do all the things all the time. We can spell each other. You rest, and I’ll call Congress. When I need a break, you’ll take up the fight. Rest. Protest. Walk around the block.

Rabbi Elai said: In three ways is a person’s character revealed: in their cup/b'koso (how they are when they drink) in their pocket/b'kiso (how they are when dealing with $) and b'kaaso /with anger. And some say, b'sckoko/with laughter. (Talmud Eruvin 65b)