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I just got started on the 5 calls app. It gives me the issues being voted on, the reps and/or senators voting, and a script for what to say. 5 Calls a Day will tell Dem pols you have their back, and GOP pols that they will be held accountable. Call after hours if you hate talking on the phone. But do it.

Please boost! Thank you!

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Friday at Last

Work has been good this week. No disasters, no scary moments. I did get a call from a customer (service programmers, like me, are not supposed to get calls directly from customers) but I was able to help the guy and it actually felt pretty good. Nope, this past week was a good week at work.

It was the rest of civilization that blew chunks. My wife and I agreed when we discussed it last night that this week has been the longest six months of our lives.

I need to do something creative this weekend. I NEED TO. Photography. Let’s go out and snap some pictures! Let’s play with the new long lens I bought a few months ago. Let’s play with the 120 film camera I bought a few months ago. Let’s go to the ocean and watch the sunrise and shoot all sorts of good stuff. Of course we should check the weather first… snow and rain today and tomorrow and rain on Sunday. Well you can just bite me, mother nature.

Music it is then! Guitar! I will play guitar this weekend if it kills me! I don’t know if we’re going to have a band practice or not. I’ll post something to our messenger thread later today (when it’s not pre-8:00am so that the other three guys don’t think I am weird and obsessed or anything) and see what’s up. If not then I need to find something else to do.

I do not want this weekend to be spent doom scrolling news sites and reading stories about the collapse of american democracy that will build up inside of me until I have a stroke. No. That would be bad, even if it is more or less inevitable. I must play guitar! I! Must! Play! Guitar!

#CallYourReps

Today's ideas for calling your representatives:

1. Demand that Congress block Trump's ability to levy tariffs.

apnews.com/article/trump-tarif

2. Demand investigation and an end to unconstitutional detainment and deportations. ICE must follow due process and respect human rights, or no one is safe.

3. Tell them to vote against the SAVE Act, and to protect our right to vote.

slate.com/news-and-politics/20

AP News · Congress could halt Trump's tariffs, but Republicans aren't ready to actBy Stephen Groves
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👉 Tell them that Trump's attack on the Smithsonian and history is shameful.

Why should White people be ashamed of what our fellow Black citizens have accomplished? Or what women have accomplished?

Many MSM articles avoid addressing the full depth of depravity in Trump's executive order, this one is better written:

latimes.com/entertainment-arts

Los Angeles Times · Trump executive order targets the Smithsonian museumsBy Jessica Gelt

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