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Class Action Lawyer. Mom. Activist. Smasher of Patriarchy. Democracy>Fascism. 🗽🇺🇸 Also: One Action a Day @oneactionaday.bsky.social
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TODAY’s ACTION ITEM: While SCOTUS hears arguments today about birthright citizenship, call your Senators and urge them to oppose confirmation of Whitney Hermandorfer to a federal judgeship. She is in favor of tearing up the 14th Amendment that guarantees birthright citizenship. @5calls.org

TODAY’s ACTION ITEM: You are Cordially Invited… Come join us for a chat with Sen. Cory Booker TONIGHT! @thepersistnetwork.bsky.social @booker.senate.gov

ALL HANDS ON DECK TODAY! You can make ONE call. Use @5calls.org - gives you the number and script! 🗽

TODAY’s ACTION ITEM: What @sanders.senate.gov said. We must defeat the GOP’s grotesque reconciliation bill. Call your Congress people and tell them to vote NO on the reconciliation bill! No trillion dollar tax break to the top 1% on the backs of the rest of America! ☎️ @5calls.org 📲 1-202-224-3121

TODAY’s ACTION ITEM: an easy one. Call your Congress people & tell them to support Rep. Raskin’s bill requiring large retailers to prominently display the cost to consumers of Trump’s Tariffs. ☎️ @5calls.org @raskin.house.gov @krassenstein.bsky.social @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social @mikelevin.org

Stephen Miller says they are “actively looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus, which is only allowed when the US has been invaded or during an insurrection, which would not allow people to challenge their incarceration in court if they are arrested and detained.

TODAY’S ACTION ITEM: Hands off our PII & data! Call Congress and tell them to stop DOGE’s creepy & malicious access to all our personal data. ☎️ 1-202-224-3121 @5calls.org @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social @just-jack-1.bsky.social @wapo1313.bsky.social

TODAY’S ACTION ITEM: Make Flying Great Again. No more airport meltdowns. No more missing planes. Call the White House & tell Trump to: Dump Duffy & rehire FAA personnel DOGE canned. Intentionally wrecking the FAA is some evil 💩. We deserve better. ☎️ 202-456-1414 @cnn.com @just-jack-1.bsky.social

Impeachment.

TODAY’S ACTION ITEM: Join the Resistance. Pick a group, follow them. Show up. May the Fourth be with You! @pamoms4change.bsky.social @momsdemand.bsky.social @democracydocket.com @thepersistnetwork.bsky.social @markhamillofficial.bsky.social @fieldteam6.bsky.social

Trump's threat to arrest Governor Evers is a chilling attempt to normalize fascism & silence dissent. They want to bully & intimidate anyone who doesn't conform to their ideology. We will NOT be intimidated. We will NOT be silenced. We will DEFEND our freedom.

These are insane life threatening budget cuts damaging our economy - loss of jobs, flights, business. While Trump & Musk line their pockets.Take 5 mins a day and make calls. Go to @5calls.org & pick an issue. It gives you the number to call and the script for what to say. SILENCE IS COMPLICITY.

TODAY’S ACTION ITEM: 98% of Americans live in range of more than 1000 public radio stations, which provide important local news coverage. For some, NPR stations are the ONLY source of emergency bulletins & the only news at all. Call & oppose cuts to our public broadcasting services. ☎️ @5calls.org

TODAY’s ACTION ITEM: Lawyers in all 50 states are retaking our oath’s today in defense of the rule of law - Lawyers out there: join one! Today is also the May Day Protest nationwide. Find yours! Show up for democracy and the rule of law today! 🗽⚖️ ⚖️ lawdayofaction.org 🗽 @50501movement.bsky.social

TODAY’S ACTION ITEM: Subscribe to the NYTimes: www.nytimes.com/subscription... @meidastouch.com @latimes.com

CALL NOW!! IT’s NOT TOO LATE. A critical enviro bill is being voted on in CA that would allow Trump to dismantle CA’s enviro protections. For CA: Tell the Senator staff your zip code if you are in his district. All others don't say where you are from unless they ask. findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov

TODAY’S (URGENT) CLIMATE ACTION ITEM: Call these CA Judiciary Committee members & demand a NO vote on SB 540 - a devastating bill that cede’s control over CA’s enviro laws to Trump (call before Tue. 9:30am) Chair Umberg: ☎️1-916-651-4034 @indivisiblegreen.bsky.social @consumerwatchdog.bsky.social

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TODAY’s ACTION ITEM: Tune in & follow @booker.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social as they hold a sit in on the Capitol steps! DM Sen. Booker re how budget cuts will hurt you and your families. And if you are in DC, go down to the Capitol and sit in with them! @schiff.senate.gov @mikelevin.org

TODAY’S ACTION ITEM: Flood Congress with calls demanding the charges against Judge Hannah Dugan be dropped immediately. This is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. Get loud. Make those calls. Silence is the enemy of democracy! ☎️ 1-202-224-3121 @5calls.org Thnx @jesscraven101.bsky.social

TODAY’s ACTION ITEM: Call Congress and tell them to impeach Kash Patel. An independent judiciary is critical to a functioning democracy. ICE should NOT be going into courtrooms & grabbing people who are appearing before a judge to get their due process. @5calls.org

TODAY’s ACTION ITEM: Demand the government protect citizens’ HIPPA rights-NO access to everyone’s medical records to create an autism database. “Between 10 and 20 outside groups of researchers will be given grant funding and access to the records to produce Kennedy’s autism studies.” ☎️ @5calls.org

TODAY’s ACTION ITEM: Why the hell is he still the Secretary of Defense? Hegseth is a clear and present danger to our democracy. Call your electeds and tell them to impeach Hegseth and investigate how so many security breaches were allowed to happen! Find your elected’s ☎️#s & a script: @5calls.org

TODAY’s ACTION ITEM: WE DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE! Join a protest for democracy near you! Today 4/19, everywhere. Click below to find an event. www.fiftyfifty.one/events

TODAY’S ACTION ITEM: CA is one of El Salvador’s largest trade partners, FAR dwarfing the $6M Trump gave them! CA imports $221M/yr from ES. Call CA pols & demand trade embargo until all held wo due proc r free @governor.ca.gov @schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov @repmike49.bsky.social @5calls.org

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🚨TODAY’S ACTION ITEM: The Constitutional Crisis is here. Call both of your Senators & your Rep to Congress & demand they take action to bring Kilmar Garcia home NOW. They can take action: stop funding the El Salvador torture prison, go to El Salvador & demand Kilmar’s release & more. ☎️ @5calls.org

MONDAY’S URGENT ACTION ITEM: President Trump is meeting with El Salvador’s President Bukele at the WH tomorrow (Mon 4/24). Call the WH and demand President Trump tell President Bukele to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US immediately. ☎️ 1-202-456-7042 @5calls.org apple.news/AT-AvK6p7SZS...

TODAY’s ACTION ITEM: This Passover - a celebration of the Israelites freedom from slavery - we demand the Govt stop attacking the freedom of others in our name! #NOTINMYNAME @bendthearc.bsky.social @democracynow.org @dadnails.bsky.social @out5p0ken.bsky.social www.bendthearc.us/immigrant_sp...

Today’s Action Item: the fight is not over! The SAVE Act goes to the Senate where we must defeat it. Make those calls to your senators! ☎️ 202-224-3121 @5calls.org @aclu.org @thepersistnetwork.bsky.social @joannapopper.bsky.social

👇🏼THIS IS A MUST WATCH breakdown of how the “SAVE Act” is a mass voter suppression bill to ensure MAGA wins the midterms & a scam-there is no evid of mass illegal voting. Call your Senators now - the fight is NOT over! @mayaonstage.bsky.social @fairfightaction.bsky.social @maxflugrath.bsky.social

TODAY’s ACTION ITEM: these 4 Dems voted to effectively take away millions of American’s ability to vote! Call & blast them:”How dare you vote to make it impossible for millions of women & others to vote!” Golden(ME) 202-225-6306 Perez(WA) 202 225-2531 Cuellar(TX) 202 225-1640 Case(HI) 202-225-2726

TODAY’s ACTION ITEM: Follow the money! Call your House Representative (especially critical if your Rep is a Republican!) and tell them to vote NO on the budget reconciliation (it passed out of the House Rules Committee to the Floor this am). TIME SENSITIVE. ☎️ @5calls.org ☎️ 1-202-224-3121

NEWS A federal judge GRANTS a TRO blocking the Trump admin from deporting Venezuelan immigrants jailed in SDNY without notice or hearing. Not nationwide. No finding on AEA proclamation.

An effect of the recent SCOTUS decision: Instead of nationwide restraining orders, limited TROs blocking the summary expulsions are cropping up across multiple districts.

TODAY’s ACTION ITEM: We are going for a triple hitter today! 1 CALL-3 ASKS. Same call, just demand 3 things of your Rep: Vote (1) No on the SAVE Act, (2) No on the No Rogue Rulings Act & (3) No on overturning bank overdraft fee limits.Takes less than 5 min. Find their# @5calls.org ☎️ @5calls.org

You rested up? Good! Me too. LFG: RED MONDAY 🚨 FIVE ALARM FIRE CALL TO ACTION: Trump’s Tariff Terrorism against Americans and the world continues. CONGRESS CAN STOP THIS NOW! Bipartisan support is growing. Make those calls! ☎️ @5calls.org

TODAY’S ACTION ITEM: take a day of rest! Recharge. We were COURAGEOUS yesterday. We did NOT comply in advance. 5 MILLION of us spread HOPE to the country and the world. Enjoy a day of rest. Tomorrow we fight on! #WEWILLPERSIST 💙🗽🇺🇸 @thepersistnetwork.bsky.social

TOMORROW April 5, we’re uniting to say HANDS OFF! Join citizens across the country to fight back against Trump’s unprecedented incompetence & blatant criminality. DO IT FOR THE PENGUINS! Go to app.sosha.ai/s/mkKNZwsa

TODAY’s ACTION ITEM: Stop the intentional crash of our economy! You know what to do (see script below): ☎️ 202-224-3121 @5calls.org Thanks for these great videos and scripts @jesscraven101.bsky.social

We will not give in to fear. We will not capitulate. Her courage ignited our fight, and now we persist. Join us: mailchi.mp/4109d0543202...

TODAY’s ANTI-NAZI ACTION: Tell Rep. Keith Goebbels Self to go🖕🏼himself & resign. Also: call Congress & tell them to impeach him. The R’s care so much about antisemitism they choke our top Universities to make them “safe” for jews - now make Congress safe. ☎️ Rep. Self: (202) 225-4201 @5calls.org

This is the plan. Thank you @chrismurphyct.bsky.social for the breakdown. Highly suggest reading the whole 🧵.