silence7 @ silence7 @slrpnk.net

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If it's like mine, their main DC phone numbers is perpetually saturated, and the voicemail is full. You need to be looking up district offices and calling those, or better yet, showing up in-person with a bunch of other people

Edit: Per Senator Markey, there are now technical problems with the Senate phone system:

We are aware that phones are experiencing technical issues across the U.S. Senate system. Please bear with us as we work to quickly address the issue and get our phones back online.

Makes showing up in-person at district offices incredibly important.

It is, but this is the first of the Democratic Senators to actually start doing it, probably in response to constituent pressure.

The critical problem right now is that either all, or almost all the Republicans in Congress favor what he is doing, and they hold a majority in both houses.

It's going to take incredible pressure from constituents and campaign donors to change that. That's going to mean calling, or better yet, showing up in person with as many people as you can bring.

Get together with a bunch of people you know, and show up in-person at your local congressman or senator's office

Some will do stuff like that, and ask cops to clear the crowd too. But we don't need every Republican to do the right thing. Just enough that they can vote with the Democrats.

The corporate owners also didn't expect the tariffs. I think an angry crowd could give them the reason to fight for the constitution they need.

It's going to take an angry crowd showing up at their district office to make them care

3rd paragraph is their names

The article literally lists their names, so I'd say they're pretty well identified.

I'm not dumb enough to put incriminating evidence in a public forum.

There isn't anybody coming to do that for us. We are going to have to do the saving ourselves

It's a bit broader than that; they're probably limited to states with abortion shield laws as states without one will likely be willing to arrest them and ship them to Louisiana.

It takes time for a lawsuit to fix it. In the meantime, a bunch of postdoc go hungry and a whole generation decides that they can't become researchers unless independently wealthy

One more controller on duty means they can spot instructions not being followed instead of having to pay attention to something else. Both are important to look at, as an event like this is not because one person messed up; it's because multiple people were not able to spot the problem before it turned deadly

You don't want to create situations where pilot error causes loss of multiple aircraft. They did it in part because air traffic control had one person doing two jobs. Doing that is a political decision in the name of "efficiency"

The announced plan is to build new facility with a capacity for 30,000, on the other side of the Guantanamo Bay from the existing prison.

There have actually been a lot of strongly worded letters. If you're not hearing about them, it's because you're listening to press which doesn't tell you about it.

What they can't do: win any vote in either house of Congress. Not enough Democrats for that.

What they can do:

• Vote 'no' on everything. Every cloture motion. Every confirmation. They're still not doing that.
• Reject any kind of unanimous consent
• Stop doing military promotions until they go back to building a military which looks like the US as a whole
• Ask for a roll call on every vote, every amendment. It slows things down.

It took Hitler 53 days to wipe out democracy

What you describe is a big part of it, but it's only part. The other big thing that happened is the near-total loss of ad revenue. Facebook built really good microtargeting, so that it became more cost-effective to advertise on their product to reach a local audience than to advertise on local news outlets, and Craigslist did the same for classifieds.

The result looks like this for most outlets:

Subscriptions are only a partial workaround for some news outlets; you can't actually charge a subscription for most local news — not enough people can pay it to result in a viable publication.

In any case, this loss of revenue means that the typical local outlet can't afford anything like the level of reporting they had 20 years ago.