Letters to the Senator

Info from this post from @actionnetwork.bsky.social

In 2020 Patel misled Pentagon officials about having secured approval for Seal Team 6 to enter Nigerian territory in order to conduct a hostage rescue, a deception that nearly resulted in an international debacle that could have endangered the lives of the extraction team.

FBI directors serve for 10 years and the FBI's mission is to protect and defend the US against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats and to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the US. Patel has publicly pledged to investigate and prosecute Trump’s enemies in the media and government.

Mainers, start your Monday morning off right with a letter to your senator! Need an idea? How about demanding she refuse to confirm Kash Patel and the other that comprise Trump's clown car of cabinet picks.

Either she was duped or she sold women out for the Trump/evangelical agenda. Either way it's bad.

From @hcrichardson.bsky.social

It is also possible that Republican senators will themselves take back for Congress the power that has lately concentrated in presidents, check the most dangerous and unpopular of Trump’s plans, and begin the process of restoring the balance of the three branches of government.

But Trump and his people do not, in fact, have a mandate. Trump is old and weak, and power is up for grabs. It is possible that MAGA Republicans will, in the end, force Republican senators into their camp, permitting Trump and his cronies to do whatever they wish.

or suggesting he will push them into recess so he can appoint his nominees without their constitutionally-mandated advice and consent.

Trump is trying to force through the Senate a number of unqualified and dangerous nominees for high-level positions, threatening Republican senators that if they don’t bow to him, Elon Musk will fund primary challengers,

November 24, 2024 Since the night of the November 5, election, Trump and his allies have insisted that he won what Trump called “an unprecedented and powerful mandate.” But as the numbers have continued to come in, it’...

Important reminders from
In this moment, Trump’s people are working hard to convince Americans that they have gathered up all the power in Washington, D.C., but that power is actually still sloshing around.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-2...

Collins calls draft Roe opinion ‘completely inconsistent’ with what Gorsuch and Kavanaugh said during hearings and meetings | CNN Politics GOP Sen. Susan Collins said on Tuesday that a Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade published by Politico was “completely inconsistent” with what Justice Neil Gorsuch and Justice...

Collins, a key Senate swing vote, voted in support of both Gorsuch and Kavanaugh’s confirmations to the high court. The Maine Republican has faced intense scrutiny – and criticism from liberals – over her record of Supreme Court votes and the issue of abortion rights.
www.cnn.com/2022/05/03/p...

Email letters to letterstothesenator@gmail.com and include a photo of yourself somewhere recognizable in your hometown. Photos are required so that we can put a face to the letters and show that we are real actual Mainers, not "paid protesters" 🤣🤣🤣
#mepolitics #maine

A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments. Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

Mainers, we want your letters to read via livestream to "Our Senator" -- 250 words or less on any topic. Need ideas? How about Collins' confirmation votes for Gorsuch and Kavenaugh to the Supreme Court, who then dismantled abortion rights for women? #mepolitics
www.propublica.org/article/pors...

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Lots of good reasons for @susancollins.bsky.social to oppose the nomination of RFK Jr. Mainers, write your letters and send them in to us at letterstothesenator@gmail.com !

Thanks for the new follows @tinamariedav.bsky.social and @chellestrat.bsky.social !

These proposed appointments look like a decapitation strike: destroying the American government from the top, leaving the body politic to rot, and the rest of us to suffer.

They combine narcissism, incompetence, corruption, sexual incontinence, personal vulnerability, dangerous convictions, and foreign influence as no group before them has done.

From this perspective, Trump's proposed appointments -- Kennedy, Jr.; Gaetz; Musk; Ramaswamy; Hegseth; Gabbard -- are perfect instruments.

From the article:
Imagine that you are a foreign leader who wishes to destroy the United States. How could you do so? The easiest way would be to get Americans to do the work themselves, to somehow induce Americans to undo their own health, law, administration, defense, and intelligence.

Send a letter of 250 words or less to letterstothesenator@gmail.com We will do a livestream reading of your letters in an attempt to make our voices heard loud and clear! Include a photo of yourself somewhere recognizable in your hometown so that Collins can't write us off as "paid protesters" 😂😂😂

From Timothy Snyder:
We lived longer in the twentieth century because of hygiene and vaccinations, pioneered by scientists and physicians and then institutionalized by governments. Kennedy would undo all of this. On his watch, were his ideas implemented, millions of us would die.

Mainahs have you written a letter to the senator yet? If you care about health, longevity, and quality of life, perhaps you should write a letter about the cabinet nomination or Robert F Kennedy Jr to head up Health & Human Services. Millions could needlessly die if Susan Collins confirms him.

Thank you @msdeli.bsky.social you're the best! Happy writing!

#SusanCollins could have said no way, find someone qualified. But instead she suggested he would need to be vetted. Meanwhile she continues to vote against highly qualified judicial nominees, mostly women and nominees of color, at record pace.

“Hegseth is undoubtedly the least qualified nominee for SecDef in American history. And the most overtly political. Brace yourself, America,” said Paul Rieckhoff, founder of Independent Veterans of America.

A compilation of screenshots with information detailing sexual assault allegations against Hegseth.

Mainahs! Take a break from raking up the leaves this weekend and write a Letter to the Senator. Need some inspo? How about Hegseth to head up Defense? Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), a former Marine Corps officer, said he believes Hegseth is “going to try very hard to politicize the military.”

There's also this: Linda McMahon, Trump’s pick education secretary, was accused in a recent lawsuit of failing to stop a ringside announcer for WWE from grooming and sexually abusing children in the 1980s and 1990s.

Also fwiw AFT and NEA both totally in unison on this (not surprisingly)
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