Well obviously Michelle should have encouraged kids to eat diamonds instead.

Everyone has an obligation to disobey unlawful orders and we shouldn’t forget it. I’m glad Sally Yates did the right thing; I have a feeling that is going to be a rare occurrence over the next four years.

No, it’s really worse. At least back then we could trust most of the conservative party to respect the law, and put nation over party.

Yes, it matters. Tailor your message, of course—e.g., don’t start with “hey, ya jagoff, I hate Republicans and I hate you and I’d rather vote for a pit viper than you because at least the pit viper is honest.” Mostly because if you use “jagoff” they’ll think you’re a Yankee.

I’m a Republican. This is beyond party politics. This is a risk to our very foundation of a country, no matter what side of the political spectrum you’re on.

It does still help. It is def. harder to get the attention of a senator in a red state, but at minimum it shows them that the opposition is mobilized and watching and what issues they are most upset about.

They keep a record of volume of calls, on which issues, etc. It really does matter.

Good on you!

Good for you! Sincerely.

You are their constituent. They won’t magically know you didn’t vote for them.

You have calls to make, too.

If you truly believe it’s a pillar of American culture that a people have the right to dismiss a corrupt and harmful government, now’s your time to fucking show it.

Canadians can also donate to the ACLU.

Call Trudeau! Tell him that you will help vote him out of office if he does not oppose—and speak out against—literally everything the Trump administration does or tries to do. Do the same for your representatives at the Entmoot or whatever Canada’s legislature is called. Make sure they understand that Canada’s people…

Yes. Everything that’s gone on in the first week of this presidency, from the seemingly trivial like lying about crowd size, to the major, like sparking a humanitarian crisis, ought to scare everyone who sees any value in American democracy and professes any fealty to American ideals. It is astonishing the speed with…

The ACLU just got a year’s worth of donations in a month. My congresswoman (Feinstein), who I disagree with frequently, just introduced legislation to roll back the “travel” (read: Muslim) ban. The Women’s March was by many accounts the largest protest ever.

The ACLU is correct. This ban IS unconstitutional. *45 does not have the authority to issue it and security personnel should refuse the orders as unlawful, because they are.

If the ban were announced with a one week notice, the “bad” would rush into our country during that week. A lot of bad “dudes” out there!

Holy fucking God Almighty, you have no idea the anger running through my system right now. Rae Kushner is from an Eastern European town that isn’t that far away from where my family lived at that time. A quick internet search shows that her family may have been murdered in the same massacre as my own family, and may…

I made a donation to the ACLU this morning. That was the first political donation I have ever made.