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Indivisible's "What's The Plan" Zoom Download April 17
It's Thursday, so it's that time again. Today's call was very much the same broken record speech repeated over and over again. Up till now I've made this summary more like meeting notes,
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It’s the GOP playbook and it’s so gross. We all need to support trans youth. 🩷🩵

They are threatening Maine every single day. We had a school district fold to the threats just yesterday. Maine is full of rural towns that can’t afford an increase in taxes to pay for their schools. They need more than vocal support, they need the state to fill the funding gap.

This should not have passed. If your rep voted for it call them out

The kids can take mom’s name or hyphenate the name. Don’t use the “but the kids” thing to make this feel better please

This part

Public school educators ain’t scared of shit

We all need to call the offices of these idiots and call them out on their bullshit. Every. Single. Time.

This should terrify everyone, being disappeared from SSA locks up all financial aspects of a life and is extremely difficult to correct.

Maine D2 Rep Jared Golden voted with Republicans for the SAVE Act. This is a vote to disenfranchise women in his district. Flood his office with calls and emails. I’ve asked him to switch his party from Dem to R so everyone knows his real intensions. Mainers let’s run a real Dem in D2

Rep. Steven Horsford says it all.

Mainers are fighting back and working to get rid of Susan “but he said…” Collins and Jared “tariffs are good” Golden.

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ICYMI - with so much happening it’s hard to stay on top of all of it.

HBD Elizabeth! 🎂🩷

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It’s a sh*t show out there for sure, use your voice and make some calls today. Every single member of Congress needs to stand up and say no. If your reps are Dems tell them to line up and take the floor of their chamber, take turns, and shut it down.

April 19, LFG

We had 2 that I saw in Portland, Maine - one in a car and another draped in an overpriced, overseas Rump flag. No one engaged, they got bored & left

Misleading headline, shocker. I’d say the question she responded to was also likely misleading. She’s well aware people are capable of having an array of feelings that are sometimes in conflict.

Portland, Maine LFG!

“All gas, no brakes” LFG!

Reminder: Dr. Oz had to pay $5.25 million to settle a class action suit for promoting phony weight loss cures.

He is a conman. No wonder Trump likes him.

Now he's in charge of running Medicare and Medicaid.

The IRS unit that audits ultrawealthy earners has lost 38% of its employees this year.

This will starve the government of revenue by making it easier for the rich to evade taxes — which the top 1% already do to the tune of $163B a year.

See what DOGE is really about?

And… folks on fixed incomes get checks at the beginning of the month. If you have disposable income hold your friggin horses and go later in the month.

What’s more helpful is to encourage people to buy local, grow as much of their own food as they can (even window planters can grow some veg), and build a community with neighbors who support each other. Panic shopping hurts all of us, specifically folks with less disposable income

Have a go bag, take a first aid class, if you can have cash on hand then have cash on hand, do not buy things because you’re bored - buy only what you need. And of course be sure you’ve got all your papers (ids/passports) and make copies both paper and on your phone. Be prepared for anything.

Yeah we all know they were going to pass but that doesn’t mean you just nod and go along with it.

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Thank you sir

Vaccines. 💪🏻💪🏻