#write your congressperson

[bookishbrigitta]

In case you had paywall issues or found the ads on the site made your computer crash, here's the article:

By Judy Stone

Telehealth will end on December 31 unless Congress takes urgent action to pass the Telehealth Moderniztion Act of 2024.

Before COVID, Medicare provided limited coverage for telehealth and mainly limited it to rural patients. It required them to go to a local hospital or clinic to interact with a specialist until early 2020. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Medicare greatly expanded coverage to include patients anywhere, allowing them to access specialty care from home. Expanded services also included physical and occupational therapy, emergency department visits, and nursing facility care via telehealth. This expansion provided care to Medicare’s 64 million enrollees and broadened pre-existing access for 76 million low-income Americans on Medicaid.

It’s not just patients on Medicare/Medicaid who need to worry if this bill isn’t renewed. Private insurers often follow Medicare’s lead regarding what services they will cover.

Congress.gov summarizes the H.R. 7623 Telehealth Modernization Act of 2024 as follows: “This bill modifies requirements relating to coverage of telehealth services under Medicare.

Specifically, the bill permanently extends certain flexibilities that were initially authorized during the public health emergency relating to COVID-19. Among other things, the bill allows (1) rural health clinics and federally qualified health centers to serve as the distant site (i.e., the location of the health care practitioner); (2) the home of a beneficiary to serve as the originating site (i.e., the location of the beneficiary) for all services (rather than for only certain services); and (3) all types of practitioners to furnish telehealth services, as determined by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.”

Why Does Telehealth Matter?

Being able to access medical remotely has been a huge boon to many, particularly in rural areas or those who are disabled.

Jessica Offir, PhD, is a disabled health care advocate and social psychologist for whom telemedicine is a priority issue. She observed that a stumbling block to the renewal of the bill is that “insurance companies didn't want to pay the same amounts as they were for in-person care, but providers have been insisting on it.” She added, “Trump is also wanting to reduce Medicare & Medicaid payouts, and this is one way to make that happen, as telehealth greatly increased the healthcare access of the elderly and disabled. Take away access, and payments decrease. The only entities who benefit are insurers.”

My own family are ardent supporters of access to telemedicine. We live in western Maryland, a three-hour drive to the university hospitals in Washington/Baltimore. I’m unable to drive that far, so increasingly rely on remote services, particularly for specialties that are poorly represented in our town. If telemedicine services are cut, I will be unable to access some specialties I need. Someone drives me twice a year for in-person examinations. These increasingly feel hazardous to my health for two reasons—one is the worsening traffic and trucking on the interstate. The other is that while my family still recognizes that the COVID-19 pandemic has not ended, our providers have not. They have stopped masking and even turned off HEPA filters in exam areas and waiting rooms, leaving them abandoned and useless. I take an Aranet CO2 monitor with me everywhere and try to educate people. On one recent visit, the CO2 level went from 600 ppm when I entered the exam room, to 1704 ppm before I left! That’s a level that can make you sleepy and show poorer judgment. I explained to the physician that each breath that he took had 3.4% rebreathed air from someone else, per SN Rudnick and Don Milton’s study, popularized by David Elfstrom’s reference table. That caught his attention and recognition of his potential risk of a Covid or other respiratory tract infection.

My experience is not unique. A recent article found that more than 17 percent of older Medicare beneficiaries similarly report difficulty traveling to doctor’s offices. Those over 65 averaged about 17 contact days that year for ambulatory care. That rose to 30 contact days per year for the 14 percent of patients with ten or more chronic illnesses—a considerable time and energy burden.

Another study of cancer patients found (73.8%) rated their first telemedicine visit as good as or better than an in-person visit, and 4606 (18.9%) rated it superior. In another striking example, those who received care through telehealth with peer assistance were almost seven times more likely to be treated for hepatitis C and four times more likely to achieve viral clearance after six months.

One bit of good news is that on November 15, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced they will extend telemedicine flexibilities through 2025. This is an important win for access to medication in end-of-life care. More than 40,000 comments were submitted to the DEA.

Paying for telehealth is a major concern now, although there has been bipartisan support for the bill. A House Republican staffer explained that “Medicare beneficiaries are on a cliff, losing tele services after December 31 2024.” Congress is negotiating how long another extension could look like and where the funding will come from, with the two parties not yet in agreement.

There have been higher per-person costs where more telehealth is used. On the other hand, telemedicine might improve patient compliance with medications and reduce costly emergency room visits.

One can argue about relative costs, but the bottom line is that there are people behind these numbers—largely disabled, elderly and rural. There are some concerns about ensuring quality of care, but that appears to be minor.

The Action Network is encouraging people to write their Congressional representatives to urge them to pass this Telehealth Modernization Act before the end of the year. It’s the only chance of saving it. With the news of planned slashes to government spending, there is no time to waste.

As Offir reminds us, “Once again, the people who will be most harmed are the vulnerable populations that can least afford to be.”

You can contact your House representatives here, and Senators here.

Please contact your Congresspeople about this one. It's vital.

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[asm5129]

Friend told me to share this around

You can still try to help stop project 2025 if you’re in the US

Contact your congressperson through email or letter or phone call (Use this to get their address/number/email/etc https://www.congress.gov/search?q=%7B%22source%22%3A%22members%22%7D)

Say or write to them smth along these lines:

> Congresswoman/congressmen, I am writing to you to urge you to put forth Saving the Civil Services act in the House to stop the Trump Administration from passing Schedule F through executive order, which will reclassify thousands of federal civil servant employees as political appointees and enables the Trump Administration to discriminate based on political loyalty and ideologies and allows important federal positions to be filled with political loyalists. This is a massive overreach of executive power. So, I urge you to do whatever you can to try and stop this.

This is important because regardless of the possibility of this being passed in Congress currently, if we can mobilise enough support for this, we can have a framework in place to stop Trump whenever it is possible for us.

So, share this message with as many people as you know, and contact your congresspeople through any means necessary.

[elumish]

In the wake of what's going on in the world, I see a lot of rhetoric that basically boils down to the idea that everyone has a responsibility to watch every bad thing that's going on in the world all the time. That awareness itself is a responsibility that everyone has always.

I'm not going to say that people do or don't have a responsibility to be aware of things, but I want to talk about how to take care of yourself and others while doing so.

For some context, I spent close to a year and a half reading about every terrorist attack in the world as part of my work on the Global Terrorism Database. It was 2015/2016, so this was the height of ISIS/Daesh, it was a major time for Boko Haram, and it was when there was a lot of political violence that we weren't sure how to classify in places like Yemen, Crimea, and Libya (stuff the GTD didn't know how to classify had all of is information recorded, and then it went into purgatory until someone above my paygrade decided what to do with it). What this means is that I was spending 10-20 hours a week reading about hundreds or thousands of attacks a month and, in my case, recording infomation about the type of attack and the type of weapon. Much of my life was reading terrible things.

Limit what you do in isolation. One of the worst changes for me during that time, mental health-wise (even though it was great for my commute) was when I went from working in-person to working remotely. With other people, there are ways to diffuse the pain. A burden shared is a burden halved and all that. That may mean talking about it, or joking about it, or finding some other way to engage with it that isn't just reading about the most horrible things in the world and then stewing in your own thoughts about them.

Find something to do that's totally unrelated. I highly recommend finding something to do with your hands, if you can (knitting, Lego, cooking, whatever), but regardless of what it is, you should have some time when you entirely switch away to something different. During a fair amount of my time with the GTD, I was also doing my undergrad thesis about terrorism on TV, so a huge amount of my life was about terrorism in some way. The only other thing I watched was Great British Bake Off, and I would just rewatch the episodes, over and over.

Be compassionate about how you share information and with whom. Use trigger warnings, and consider using consistent tagging on places like Tumblr so people can blacklist it if they need to. Also consider whether it's appropriate or necessary to share photos of bodies or other results of horrible violence. What is it accomplishing, to show that? Can that goal be accomplished other ways that don't require the equivalent of jumpscares of unexpected photos of dead or brutalized people? Are you just showing it because you think that everyone should have to see it? If you are showing it, are there ways to mitigate against harm it may do?

Do what you can to avoid an echo chamber. Sometimes, when everyone around you is upset or angry about the same thing, it just amplifies itself, and you all get angrier and more upset in perpetuity without accomplishing anything.

Work towards action. Watching terrible things happen for the sake of saying that you haven't looked away isn't as meaningful as taking action in some way. Write to your Congressperson. Donate. Do whatever is appropriate for the thing you want to stop. But penance via watching terrible things happen doesn't accomplish anything.

Recognize compassion fatigue and do what you can to mitigate it. If you spend long enough doing this, you start to lose context, and you start to become less able to have compassion about things. If you're reading about attacks with dozens or hundreds of deaths regularly, five can start to not seem like that many. If you're reading only about the worst suffering in the world, "lesser" suffering of those around you can start to seem unimportant and petty. Do what you can to mitigate that.

Be kind to yourself. You do nobody any good if you burn out. Look away, if you need to. Take a break. Do things so you can enjoy life, because otherwise you are just another person suffering in the world. Other people's pain isn't a hair shirt for you to wear.

[qqueenofhades]

what are your thoughts on writing/calling members of Congress and voicing concerns? Are any more responsive than others? Are there any conservative/moderates at least willing to listen? I feel so helpless.

I will say that almost no one takes the initiative to contact their congresspeople, so you will be ahead of the curve by doing so at all. You will reach an intern whose job it is to collect these comments, and they will say "thank you for calling X's office" and that will be it. You can also email, though with the phone you will be sure of talking to someone. Again, people don't often do this, so it always helps to remind the congresscritters that there are real people out there paying attention.

That said: you are limited in who you can contact, i.e. those who directly represent you and therefore you are their constituent. I mean, you can always call Mitch McConnell and tell his intern that he's a bag of dicks, but if you don't live in Kentucky (and lbr, even if you do), he has no obligation to care about that at all. If you're lucky enough to live in a swing district, you can definitely get the most bang for your buck out of contacting your congressperson, but even in safe blue or safe red districts, it's worth doing anyway.

Locate which US House congressional district you live in and who your US senators are, but also remember that a lot of the bad shit that happened over the last 4 years even while Biden was in office was driven by state and local legislatures. Contact your state senators, your governor, your state House-- hell, even your city council. They are the ones who will be making decisions that directly affect you and say, whether or not a particularly heinous Trump policy gets implemented without a fight. Decisions are made by those who show up, and there has never been a better time to get tf off the echo chamber Internet and do real work in your community. So yeah.

[tieflingkisser]

Planned Action for LGBTQ+ & Allies in Response to Democrats Capitulating on Trans Rights

I am but one person and cannot speak for our entire community. But here’s what I propose in the spirit of Queer Nation, who in the 1990s carried out myriad protests under the same banner but with no singular leader or directive. I propose that on Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024 (the first day that both the House and Senate are back in session), all of us who are invested in this issue and have a platform (whether it be a blog, newsletter, column, podcast, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, etc.) publish a piece with the shared title: “LGBTQ+ People Are Not Going Back.” Yes, I know, it’s a cheesy title, but it holds Democrats accountable to their own talking points and makes it clear that backsliding on LGBTQ+ rights is nonnegotiable for us. What you write or say or express in your op-ed or article or video or podcast etcetera is up to you. I encourage you to make it personal and feel free to tailor it to your audience. My only request (other than all of us using the same title) is that you implore people to contact their Congressperson and Senators (and perhaps even local politicians) and tell them that 1) you will not tolerate any backpedaling on LGBTQ+ rights whatsoever, and 2) if they fail to strongly stand up against these attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, then you will take your vote elsewhere next election.

[notetaeker]

MY AMERICANS: tomorrow is Election Day. Please go out to vote.

If there is no one on the ballot that you like, bubble in the “write-in” section and write ‘Free Palestine’ in the box. Let them know that you are a voter and no one on the ballot matches your values.

If you don’t vote, then you are NOT a voter and not someone that any politician cares about. In a system that doesn’t care about voters, not voting is NOT a statement! The main thing all politicians want is to be elected, if you are not a voter, you and your interests simply do not matter to them.

Votes are anonymous. No one will know who wrote ‘free palestine’ and yeah it won’t help anyone get elected BUT

Your name will be added as a voter, so when you do decide to sign a petition or call your congressperson- you Will be on the list of voters- your concerns will hold weight.

Your ‘ruined’ ballot will be a statement: ‘This is the issue I, a voter, care about, that YOU have not not done anything about.’ Look it up- it’s call a protest vote. Even if these votes are not counted, you being added as a regular voter is worth the trouble.

Make your voice heard. Remember: In our political system- if you don’t vote, you don’t count.

[damoreschool]

Rune Reading for the month of March:

Berkano, Naudhiz, Othala

I read this as "women need protection". Although Othala usually means home or ancestral land, for those of us in the United States women are being attacked in our own homes, our reproductive rights stripped, our autonomy and agency challenged.

March is the month of action. In it, we feminist witches & pagans, and our allies must stand up for our rights of self determination. I encourage you to write to your congressperson sometime this month and encourage them to support federal protection for women's reproductive rights:

https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

https://www.senate.gov/senators/

PS: I have a sneaking suspicion that Freyja influenced my draw here, lol 🤣

[kintatsujo]

writing to my conservative congressperson about KOSA: *long angry multiparagraph rant, ended with "disrespectfully yours*

writing to my liberal representative about limiting Supreme Court terms: *very short comment that this just makes sense, ended with "thank you for your time"*

[exitrowiron]

Rich People Getting Richer (Part 2 of ?)

Take my word for it when I say that Rich People don't give a shit about whatever is the current 'outrage' occupying the attention the Joe Sixpack and Mrs. Soccer Mom. No, they don't care about the imaginary threats of drag queens, wokeness, trans people, pronouns, using the gender correct bathroom, etc. Their kids go to good public schools or private schools that don't ban books and if Buffy gets pregnant you can bet they'll find a way to obtain an abortion. These are all useful distractions to keep the masses from protesting what I'm about to explain to you.

In Part 1 we established that the Federal Income Tax brackets are Progressive; rich people have higher marginal and effective tax rates.

But these tax rates only apply to Ordinary Income. What's that you ask? Ordinary Income is wages, salaries, tips, bonuses etc.; the kind of income earned by ordinary people in their job. Ordinary income also includes interest earnings (like from a savings account or CD) and dividends (profit sharing that companies give their shareholders).

But there is another source of income enjoyed by rich people - Capital Gains. A Capital Gain results when you sell an asset for more than it's purchase price. Other than your home, what is the most common capital asset? STOCKS! Selling a stock for more than it's purchase price results in a Capital Gain. If you owned the stock for more than a year, it is considered a Long Term Capital Gain; less than a year and it is a Short Term Capital Gain.

The tax rate on Long Term Capital Gains is MUCH lower than the rates on Comparable Ordinary Income:

Let's use an example of two couples, each with a taxable income of $150K and each filing jointly. The Kramers are a working couple and all $150K of their earnings is Ordinary Income. The Kramers will pay $24,234 in taxes for an effective tax rate of 16.1%. The Seinfelds are trust fund kids. They earned $25K as butterfly shepherds and the remaining $125K comes from capital gains. The Seinfelds will pay $12,586 in taxes for an effective tax rate of 8.4%.

That's not the end of the good news for the Seinfelds though. They bought more stocks with the $11,648 they 'saved' in taxes and that helped them generate even more capital gains next year which were taxed at a lower rate and so they kept getting farther ahead of the Kramers at an accelerating rate.

This is obviously an exaggerated example, but you get the idea. The lower tax rate on capital gains is a huge advantage and the people who generate capital gains are (white) people who already have enough wealth to invest in assets like stocks. And the wealthier you get, Capital Gains income becomes a larger and larger share of our total income. For the Super Rich (ex. Elon Musk), Capital Gains can easily far exceed Ordinary Income.

But Mike, the Kramers (and many Americans with modest incomes) own stock too in their 401K! Yes, but 401Ks are already tax advantaged; that's not a reason for lower capital gains taxes.

Every year the Democrats propose increasing the capital gains tax and every year lobbyists and rich political donors go ape shit and the Republicans vote it down. They argue that this would lower investment, slow the growth of the stock market and the economy, etc. I doubt that. Are rich people going to start putting their money under their mattress? Are they really going to change citizenship to a low tax country? Probably no on both of those, but rich people have been known to hide money overseas and that risk should be accompanied by increased IRS audit resources (another initiative voted down by Republicans).

If you're ever going to write a letter to your Congressperson - you should write supporting parity of taxes on long term capital gains and ordinary income.

(Yes, I am aware of Net Investment Income Tax, which imposes an additional 3.8% tax on investment income, including your capital gains on high earning individuals. This additional tax still doesn't close the gap.)

[thedepressedweasel]

I had to send a message to my senator and congressperson about the KOSA bill and why that bill is a bad idea.

Then Senator Alex Padilla sent me this:

"Thank you for writing to share your thoughts regarding online safety for children and teens. I appreciate hearing from you.

Our children are among the most vulnerable members of our society, and I strongly believe that we have an obligation to care for their mental and physical well-being. Digital platforms have become key spaces for education, socialization, and entertainment for young people, and it is important that they are able to utilize these services safely.

The “Kids Online Safety Act” (S.1409), introduced by Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), seeks to provide young people and their parents with tools, safeguards, and information that would be helpful to safely navigate online services. This bill would require internet companies to act in the best interests of the minors that use their platforms and would require platforms to be independently audited by experts to assess their risk to minors. This bill passed the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on July 27, 2023, and it is currently awaiting consideration by the full Senate.

I understand you have concerns that this bill may negatively impact individual privacy and freedom of expression online, especially for diverse communities. Please know that I appreciate hearing your perspective on this issue, and I will keep your thoughts in mind should this bill or similar legislation come before the full Senate for a vote.

Once again, thank you for writing. Should you have any other questions or comments, please call my Washington, D.C. office at (202) 224-3553 or visit my website at padilla.senate.gov. You can also follow me on Facebook and Twitter, and you can sign up for my email newsletter at padilla.senate.gov/newsletter."

WHAT?!? THE?!? ACTUAL?!? FUCK?!?!?!?!?!

They want you to think that it's just about protecting children from online predators and stuff, but make no mistake! Alex Padilla and Richard Blumenthal don't really care about protecting kids; they just want to make it easier for abusive parents to control their children! You know, by getting rid of websites like DeiviantArt, Facebook, AO3, FurAffinity and even this one! KOSA is actually dangerous for kids (and even adults alike), as it only seeks to strip us of our much-needed internet privacy and they just don't care!

Please, I beg of you, please keep speaking up against KOSA!

[stunystuff]

What Trump's People Want

It is long past time to keep listening to Donald Trump pretending to care about the people who so fervently support him. He does NOT support them or care in any way about their concerns.

But their concerns are legitimate, and it's way past time to start listening to them. The people who have (mistakenly) put their trust in Mr. Trump are upset that their government has been taken from them, and they want it back.

Government of the people, by the people, and for the people? Doesn't exist any more. No member of Congress, let alone the President, can possibly represent the interests of the 750,000 people in his district. (Not that they even try. Members of Congress, with few exceptions, vote the way their party leader tells them to vote; constituents rarely play any role.) One now-retired member of Congress, in a rare moment of candor, described his own orientation into that body. He was shown the place where members "dialed for dollars," and was told he would be spending most of his time there...raising campaign funds so he wouldn't have to go home and actually work for a living.

The things they vote on, actually, are not the concerns of their constituents anyway. For example: how many American constituents asked their congressperson to send U.S. troops to Niger? I suspect that the number is less than a dozen. And yet the U.S. is pulling all kinds of strings to keep those soldiers in Niger, after even the government of Niger asked them to pull out. That's just a blatant example of how the people have lost control of government.

Did you ever try to actually see your congressperson in Washington? I tried several times...I even once called on a member I knew personally. I never got past the gatekeeper at the office door. When I tried writing to my Congressman about an issue, I got (a) a letter assuring me that the Congressman read all his mail without responding to my concerns, or (b) a letter sent by a deputy sub-intern picking up words I had used in my letter but demonstrating nothing to indicate that he had understood or even read my actual concerns.

Remember when every kid dreamed of growing up to be President? Doesn't happen now. Indeed, no honorable person with the standing to be worthy of the presidency would even consider running these days, what with the gratuitous insults and lies being hurled about, the slander directed at candidates' families, the need to lie constantly in order to appeal to various voting blocs. Aside from Mr. Trump, most of our candidates these days are ambitious lawyers who will sacrifice their integrity, even their families, in order to find a more profitable scam than chasing ambulances.

So what the MAGA people are actually saying is: "We want our government back! " Simple as that. And I think that's a message worth hearing. Are you listening, Washington?

[nicklloydnow]

“Traffic deaths of pedestrians are up by 70% in the last 10 years and pickup trucks are largely to blame, according to a story from The Hill that we ran this week.

The number of walkers killed by “light utility trucks” rose from 732 in 2010 to 1,773 in 2021.

The reasons are obvious. Pickup trucks have long since ceased to be the single-bench-seat, utilitarian work vehicles of my youth, and morphed into monsters. It used to be rare to see a large four-door pickup. Now, it’s practically impossible to buy anything else.

To make them look brawnier, manufacturers raised suspensions and put huge grilles on the front. The hoods are so hard to see over that one congressman has proposed requiring new trucks to have forward-facing cameras and sensors to reduce “frontover” accidents, which is running over people or things you can’t see through the windshield.

There’s a better way: smaller trucks. They exist. We just can’t buy them.

(…)

Every time I see that, I say to myself (or anyone unlucky enough to be in earshot) “There, that’s the truck I want” — minus the machine gun, which I’d only need if I were driving Kris Kobach in a parade.

But we can’t get those trucks here because of two reasons: profits and politics.

Profits, because car manufacturers make way more per unit selling jumbo trucks. And politics because of an antiquated trade policy levying a 25% tariff on imported light trucks, in retaliation for a European tariff on U.S. chicken.

(…)

According to an Axios study, shopping and errands are the No. 1 use of pickups, with 87% of owners reporting they do that frequently. Second was pleasure driving, 70%, and third, commuting, 42%.

Only 28% said they frequently use their trucks for personal hauling, and towing was a piddling 7%.

That same study showed that in 1985, mini-trucks were slightly more than a quarter of all pickups sold. By 2010, that had dropped to zero, and full-size trucks had over 90% of the market.

(…)

So if you want to try to make a dent in traffic fatalities, gasoline usage and global warming, call or write your congressperson and ask them to repeal the Chicken Tax.

That’s not as far-fetched as it sounds. U.S. trade negotiators made a deal in 2011 to allow Korean light-truck imports by 2021, but President Donald Trump, a big fan of trade wars, pushed that back to 2041.

Ditching the Chicken Tax might break the big-truck stranglehold on the market. If smaller import trucks sell, as I suspect they would, our domestic manufacturers might be led to retool and compete.

And then, when it comes to buying a pickup truck, we might once again be as free as the Taliban.”

[bigcowboydyke]

Good post op but be prepared for people to throw an absolute fit about you as a disabled person using the word cripple

Honestly ppl have been pretty chill this far. I appreciate you looking out for me though! I did notice some ppl tagging that I used a slur, which certainly felt ... interesting ... considering I was talking about me... but anyway if any of yall are concerned by my language choice pls read the following:

To all whom it may concern: I LOVE BEING A CRIPPLE. MY DISABLED BODY IS A FUCKING MARVEL AND I LOVE LIVING IN IT!!! EVERY DAY I NAVIGATE A WORLD MADE COMPLETELY AD TOTALLY FOR THE ABLED AND I REFUSE TO BEND THE FEW SPACES THAT ARE MINE TO FIT IN WITH WHAT MAKES THEM LESS UNCOMFORTABLE WITH ME. THE ONUS IS NOT ON ME. I DO NOT LIVE TO PANDER OR APOLOGIZE FOR MY BODY'S MERE EXISTENCE OR DARING TO TALK ABOUT IT! I LIVE TO THRIVE IN MY PERSONHOOD AND LOVE AND BE LOVED! I AM MADE PERFECTLY IN THE IMAGE OF GOD!

And

if ya don't like it you can kiss my stump and then my ass and THEN write your congressperson, in that order 😘 love and peace babes xoxo

[corporationsarepeople]

Friends,

As a public theologian (at least that’s what people call me), it’s my job to do theology in the public square. I have been shaken by the events in Nashville this week. I feel alarmed by the inaction of our leaders. In that vein, last evening I penned a letter to my congressperson, Representative Patrick McHenry (R-NC). I publish this letter not to scold him, but to give you courage to write your representative and speak out. They serve our interests even if they don’t always agree. I just know we can’t keep doing this. None of us can continue at this level of violence.

Faithfully yours,

Rev. Rob

Dear Representative McHenry,

[click the link to read more]

[stonyponyofficial]

popped onto your blog as one does and briefly read the "violets bangers" tag on your pinned post as "violets burgers" ehich as you can imagine was very exciting. &hi btw :3

u know, char (hai :3), ive spent these years of my life at #violets burgers... and they dont even let me flip the damn burgers. I'm Violet. And They Don't Let Me FLip The Burgwrs........ at #Violets Burgers...... please write into your local congressperson this i sinhumane let me flip a burger AT ONCE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mysteryspotcast]

🚨 Ep. 26, The Men of Letters Order 66, is here! 🚨

This week, as we get closer to the end of season 2, we discussed Supernatural S2E20: "What Is and What Should Never Be", and episode 10 of the Winchesters, which coincidentally fit together thematically incredibly well....

Points of Interest: Write a letter to your congressperson about The Winchesters, the Great License Plate Change, Drake Rodger John Winchester (Good) vs. Jeffrey Dean Morgan John Winchester (Bad), a bitch in an American Girl Samantha nightgown, Dean and Sam crashed the housing market, the Winchesters’ favorite mobile games, the discovery of Supernatural GenderSWAP, and Crowley won’t call Carlos dad.

LISTEN NOW in your favorite podcast app!