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Also, a good reminder to make sure you have biometrics for unlocking your phone off and that your pin code is not your birthday or any significant date to you.

Just because it's an illegal search doesn't mean they won't try. Make it as difficult as possible for them. Resist, resist, resist.

this happened to a 19 year old US citizen studying in Bulgaria. do yourself a favor and do not leave the country right now under any circumstances. and another reminder: do not under any circumstances give your electronic devices up to anyone who asks or allow your things to be searched without a signed warrant from a judge. you have a right to refuse any search and seizure that is unwarranted. you still have rights. do not comply in advance. they will use it to prosecute you for whatever they can.

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Thank you Ben Cohen (the cofounder of Ben and Jerry’s), for standing up for the American people and for Palestinians.

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In case you haven’t heard, the twumpie cult has a little website so they can support their little maga businesses.

First, they have to apply to be on the list. Second, they are vetted and approved (somehow) by the site to ensure they follow the maga cult values. So, don’t worry, they want this to be public.

You don’t need an account to see the listings and we should all be aware of where we are spending the few dollars we each have. Shop local but shop smart.

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April 19th - National Day of Protest

I thought it'd be worse but the three hecklers I got were pathetic. For everyone I got at least five positive responses. I'm staying vague because it may get really ugly for protesters soon but I ended up standing alone today.

Overall, a very emotional but positive experience. The hecklers never made me upset but I did cry a couple times from people stopping and thanking me and talking to me about it. Every time, an older woman thanked me or waved, I wondered if they were standing in my spot in decades past.

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I've been trying for a bit to watch the entirety of Cory Bookers speech, not just clips and highlights. In case you're in the same boat:

This should be the whole thing over seven parts.

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My daylight job is part of the legs of the shipping process but I don't want to get specific.

I see a lot of people who hate the post office because they had a package get lost or something came really late.

I don't think people fully realize that their mail carrier is also making last leg delivery for a lot of the carriers. If you ever get a shipping label that has multiple shipping companies listed or isn't really clear who's carrying it, it's usually has the USPS somewhere in it's journey.

Amazon contracts the USPS for a bunch of last-leg shipments because they are they only way to get them in rural areas. By last-leg, I mean that usually these will get sorted to the nearest regional facility for th carrier before it's passed off to the USPS for the last sorting and delivery.

They make it look like they work more with UPS but, frankly, they are just using UPS for package drop offs and returns. This could lead me into a whole other rant about QR codes and rural communities but not today.

They also have way more Amazon delivery drivers out now but in my rural ass area, we get both their drivers and USPS last-leg.

What I'm saying is that corporate America has already been leeching on USPS for a while. That's why the service has been bogged down like this for several years. Every USPS worker I interact with is tired and overworked.

And maybe this is a little bit of reach but these maga fucks have already poisoned like 75% of social media platforms. Seems like now their also going after the old ways of communicating with each other.

Like, you can send someone a postcard anywhere in the US for about $0.60 if you use a postcard stamp. You can get something like 80lbs-100lbs index cardstock, standard 8.5"x11", and split it into equal quarters. You could also do this with A4, if you have that, for some reason. Congrats, you now have 4 blank postcards that are the right proportions for a postcard stamp, which is far cheaper than an forever stamp.

Stamp goes in the right top corner; the recipients address goes in the middle but can be the middle left if you need space; Your return address (optional) goes in the top left corner.

Sure, the internet is free, but I am already seeing homemade postcards like this being sent to politicians. I've seen them going through the EDDM system to carpet neighborhoods.

Don't you think that's part of why they're targeting the post office?

Next time you're around when the mail gets delivered, ask your delivery person if they're understaffed or not.

But don't hold them up too much, they have a lot of work to do.

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Some of y'all never learned that you have to be uncomfortable sometimes; that's how you grow and change.

The person on your street corner has a fuck of a lot more in common with you than you will ever have with the 1%. Statistically, most you are a couple missed checks away from joining them.

The person who makes you feel uncomfortable is still a human being. Everyone deserves a warm safe place to lay their head at night and a filling meal on their plate. Don't you dare judge someone when they aren't getting their basic needs filled, and by the way, socializing is also a basic human need.

the fundamental problem on this website is that if a homeless person tried to talk to most of y’all you’d be scared out of your minds

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Here is your mission.

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Ed Case of Hawaii District 1 https://case.house.gov/contact/

Tom Suozzi of New York District 3 https://suozzi.house.gov

Jim Costa of California District 21 https://costa.house.gov/contact

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington District 3 https://gluesenkampperez.house.gov/contact

Jared Moskowitz of Florida District 23 https://moskowitz.house.gov/contact

Ami Bera of California District 6 https://bera.house.gov/contact/

Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania District 6 https://houlahan.house.gov

Marcy Kaptur of Ohio District 9 https://kaptur.house.gov/contact

Laura Gillen of New York District 4 https://gillen.house.gov/contact

Jim Himes of Connecticut District 4 https://himes.house.gov/contact-me

Spread the word; so many of these politician hide behind the number in the headline.

Got the list of names from the article below and added more information.

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The San Francisco Examiner, California, October 28, 1932

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It’s quick, it’s easy, and it’s free: fucking with the Heritage Foundation

civic duty

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There will always be people who think that the little privilege they have will let them step on everyone else and become equals to the oppressors.

It never has worked and never will. You will never be the exception.

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Literally sobbing. A judge, a US judge defended us. A judge brought up intersex people, using the term intersex, to *defend* us by not allowing our erasure. I'm having a lot of feelings right now

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