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US Capitol Switchboard phone number

Save this # in your phone… it is for the US Capitol switchboard. Once connected, an operator will connect you to the office you wish to reach.

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Wild to see you working with someone who co-sponsored the Protection of Women & Girls in Sports Act (very anti-trans legislation) to help with…let me check my notes here about all the scary things we’re up against…ah, yes, concert ticket prices. Nice priorities, Jan. 👎🏽🙄

I was vaccinated for flu & COVID back in December, and have been so lucky to get through this surge with hardly a sniffle (the extreme cold made it impossible to get through without some drips).

Desperate For Answers, Logan Square Assault Survivors Urge Neighbors To Pack Upcoming Police Meeting With no updates from police, several victims of sexual and physical attacks have banded together to speak out about their assaults, which date back to at least 2022 and remain unsolved.

For anyone in Logan Square/Humboldt Park/14 District, please consider packing this meeting so we can put pressure on the people that are supposed to keep us safe. I’ll see you there. blockclubchicago.org/2025/02/19/d...

Semicolon owner is fundraising to keep the Chicago bookstore alive • The TRiiBE Danielle Moore hopes adding a cafe to the West Town location can save the remaining bookstore.

NEW — Danielle Moore hopes adding a cafe can save the remaining Semicolon bookstore.

She’s hoping to raise $25,000 by March 16 through a Kickstarter campaign.

Here’s how you can help:

thetriibe.com/2025/02/semi...

Wednesday, February 19 - Tell Reps to HOLD THE LINE Today! / Immigration Resource Event / Indivisible Co-Founder Discussion — Indivisible Chicago Alliance

DAILY ACTION: Wednesday, February 19 - Tell Reps to HOLD THE LINE Today! / Immigration Resource Event / Indivisible Co-Founder Discussion

Congresswoman Ramirez: Hold the Line. No Votes for the Coup · Indivisible Chicago Purpose of Rally We are pushing our Representatives to hold firm and not bail out Republicans by voting for the funding bill. This isn’t normal politics.This is harmful to all but the wealthiest amo...

Gonna show up to this on Wednesday and remind my elected official that they have a job to do, no matter how hard and how scary. Choosing to be a civil servant is never to be taken lightly, and we need our Representatives to #holdtheline

mobilize.us/s/EEc36z

Elon Musk: whoa Ashley St. Clair: Elon, we have been trying to communicate for the past several days and you have not responded. When are you going to reply to us instead of publicly responding to smears from an individual who just posted photos of me in underwear at 15 years old?

The women who have children with Musk always seem surprised when it ends up like this.

Sign outside the Stonewall National Monument park with the word Transgender written in pink chalk between the words National and Monument.

We won’t disappear just because you change a website.

I’ll be hosting bingo @thaliahallchicago.bsky.social soon, to raise money for Pilsen Food Pantry. You should come! I also cannot recommend volunteering with their org enough and they could use the help as recipients are afraid to show up because of ICE, so they are focusing on delivery.

Okay but when does Lil Salty get his own ghostwriter so we know what’s going on in that lil’ grain o salt brain?

Don't let Donald Trump and Elon Musk talk us out of democracy Trump and Musk are testing the limits, trying to sell America on being an authoritarian state — but they can’t do it unless we allow them to do so.

Trump is a salesman, as is Musk, and they are both trying to sell America on being an authoritarian state — but they can’t do it unless we allow them to do so.
~ @chrisgeidner.bsky.social

Following Edna’s lead on how to spend a snow day.

Super Bowl Performer Who Waved Sudan, Palestine Flag Released Without Charges The protester said in interviews that his Muslim faith inspired him to speak up on the national stage.

The dancer who waved a flag expressing solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and Sudanese people during Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl show on Sunday has been released without charges. “I had an opportunity on a grand scale to bring awareness to a wrong [against] our Muslim brothers and sisters.”

Save the Chicago Reader | Chicago Reader (Powered by Donorbox) We need your help todayAfter more than 50 years of serving Chicago, the Reader faces imminent closure. Can you imagine Chicago without the Chicago Reader? We can’t either. But a perfect storm of sudde...

⚠️ Urgent call for donations! The Reader is facing a financial crisis and we need your support to continue amplifying local arts and news. Donate now to keep us going. chicagoreader.com/donate

Remember. It’s never:

We fight for (these people) because maybe we’re more at risk if we don’t.

No more Niemölling.

We fight because they are coming for anyone.

Every single person matters.

Each and every human being’s life and safety is worth the fight.

We're here to stop the coup. Hey, Dems, how about you?

Chicago turns out!
@indivisible.org

Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena, giving indie stores a new way to compete with Amazon "Everything Amazon can do, we want to do as well or better," says CEO Andy Hunter on boosting indie sales digitally.

This is AMAZING news!
Fuck Amazon

www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...

🚨 BREAKING: Trump signs executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and cut all funding to UNRWA, the main agency supporting Palestinian refugees.

This means millions of Palestinians lose access to food, healthcare, and education.

Writing in a notebook, it says “2.4.25 - It’s my Mom’s birthday. 10th one without her. She’d be 62. I miss her everyday and am also grateful we never have to fight about cops.”

Happy birthday, Teresa Gail. 💖

Journalists scramble to respond to CDC web purge of LGBTQ+ data While the data may be restored, any likely revision impacts all journalists, and more importantly, the communities they serve across their beats.

"Now more than ever ... it’s crucial for cis journalists to invest time and energy into learning how to report on trans communities accurately."

👇

Take yall children to those black history events that will be held at some local libraries. It starts at home

It’s Black History Month! A great way to celebrate is to listen to Black leaders & revolutionaries!

Have you read any James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Langston Hughes, Mariame Kaba, Maya Angelou, or Zora Neale Hurston before? It’s a great time to start and to discover your own favorites!

House GOP Floats Plan to Cut Taxes for Corporations and the Ultrawealthy Republicans propose slashing benefits for the poor and working class to pay for new tax cuts.

MAGA to working people: "Wow that sucks eggs cost $13 and 2/3 of your check goes to rent, but buck up, we did a bunch of mean stuff to trans people, made it harder to join a union, went after anti-war protesters, and now we just blamed Black people for a plane crash." truthout.org/articles/hou...

Three Things You Can Do Right Now to Combat Anti-Trans Censorship (CW #9) A printable zine of the Trans Literature Preservation Project, nationwide action on December 3rd, 2024, and more!

Even if you don’t have the spoons right now to read the article, I would URGE you to download it so you can have access later no matter what.

There is a PDF download link at the top of the article.

If you want a printed copy, there is a printable zine below:

This is so fucked, y’all. Please take some time this week to call your US Reps and check on your Trans Homies.

It can feel overwhelming for an individual in these times wondering "what can I do?"

The first thing is to realize that it is not up to us individually to fix everything. We do not have the power, the skills, or the expertise.

What we can do is to find small ways to become active. It isn't one