snow and political action.
Feb. 4th, 2025 09:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serafaeryOur beautiful Oregon coast got a thick dusting of snow, my fb feed is full of beautiful images and video - it is very rare for our mild, damp coast to ever get snow so it's kind of a special occasion. It's headed this way. We'll see how much we get overnight. It's not expected to accumulate much.
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I called my State Representatives over the illegal actions of Musk staffers taking over the US Treasury dept and gaining access to all of our personal social security and tax information, payment info, shutting down safeguards to keep that huge government payment system safe, etc. etc. etc. I haven't called my state reps since the government shutdown back before pandemic, I don't think.
There is an incredibly helpful app called 5calls.org that gives you your state rep numbers by entering your zipcode, and provides a helpful script for a number of issues, including the Musk fiasco. I will call every day until this is fixed (even if it is never fixed), I don't know what else to do and I feel like I need to do something. I don't have the resources to fly to DC to protest, as tempting as that is to think about.
If anyone knows of any other useful actions to take, I'm all ears.
I hope others are using the 5calls platform, it's amazing. It really did take me just five minutes to leave messages for all of my reps.
I don't usually talk politics here at all, but I feel like stopping the illegal takeover/violation of our country's national Treasury that holds personal financial sensitive information for all US citizens is not a partisan issue.
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I called my State Representatives over the illegal actions of Musk staffers taking over the US Treasury dept and gaining access to all of our personal social security and tax information, payment info, shutting down safeguards to keep that huge government payment system safe, etc. etc. etc. I haven't called my state reps since the government shutdown back before pandemic, I don't think.
There is an incredibly helpful app called 5calls.org that gives you your state rep numbers by entering your zipcode, and provides a helpful script for a number of issues, including the Musk fiasco. I will call every day until this is fixed (even if it is never fixed), I don't know what else to do and I feel like I need to do something. I don't have the resources to fly to DC to protest, as tempting as that is to think about.
If anyone knows of any other useful actions to take, I'm all ears.
I hope others are using the 5calls platform, it's amazing. It really did take me just five minutes to leave messages for all of my reps.
I don't usually talk politics here at all, but I feel like stopping the illegal takeover/violation of our country's national Treasury that holds personal financial sensitive information for all US citizens is not a partisan issue.
