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Lucyland's avatar

Thanks for this info. I’m currently outside of the US, so calling isn’t an option, but can send email. The cruelty ushered in by this election is truly deranged.

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Jenn E's avatar

I am literally sick over all of this, not to mention terrified. This is going to have awful consequences for so many of my students and their families. May I ask what some of your favorite good causes are?

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Salaam Bhatti's avatar

I love the Food Research and Action Center (biased, I work here), National Center for Law and Economic Justice, and Humanity First.

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Rachel Baldes's avatar

Thank you for sharing KEJC!

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JW Mansour's avatar

This is the most practical, clearly spelled out advice on how to make your voice/anger heard. Thank you.

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Miss AJ's avatar

They already cut ppls snap, and put into place a new policy that stopped benefits that will prevent my friend from eating for 3 weeks until she gets her first paycheck.

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Salaam Bhatti's avatar

Tell me more. What state?

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Miss AJ's avatar

I sent them a message. Let’s see if they can screen shot letter. My understanding is that they didn’t have an income change, but they said it went down $30.

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Miss AJ's avatar

Oh it’s not letting me share their screenshot. They did get cut $32 though, and the reporting day changed for them.

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Miss AJ's avatar

I guess it’s possible it’s unrelated, but this is what was sent…

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Miss AJ's avatar

Massachusetts. Disabled friend was cut $290 to $260.

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Cheryl Johnson's avatar

Here in VA , suggestions needed for most effective strategy to deal with our R Reps and Senators ? I can put a blast out and organize a “ visit.”

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Salaam Bhatti's avatar

R Reps need the calls the most.

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Randy Rosso's avatar

Consider joining our Virginia chapter of RESULTS! I co-lead the group (all of us are volunteers). Our mission is to end poverty in the US and abroad, so we are working hard to protect SNAP and mitigate the damage of the catastrophic dismantling of USAID.

https://results.org/

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Connie C's avatar

Georgia here. What are some good advocacy groups? Thanks!

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Salaam Bhatti's avatar

Gbpi.org

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PK's avatar

Might consider donating to a nonprofit like Feeding America, if you can spare it: https://www.feedingamerica.org/

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BPS's avatar

I thought people might like to know what Elon Musk and Trump have planned for the country, and it's shocking that no one is talking about their real agenda here. All we see are threats to completely end so many government programs and agencies and spending, seemingly as simple hatred of government and retribution to those who opposed Trump or didn't vote for him, along with massive cruelty to all sorts of people, from immigrants to people who rely on government benefits. Terrible as that is, it's not what's really going on.

Musk's plan, that he's convinced Trump to commit to, is to transform the entire way our government works, by running it as a giant series of AI programs.

No, that's not science fiction, and it's not me going paranoid crazy. It's what Musk is planning to do. And fast.

Musk has been building giant AI programs and massive AI computing centers for years now. He just finished building Colossus in Tennessee, the world's largest AI computing center. Colossus was just launched in September 2024. It's a part of Musk's xAI company, which he intends to use to completely revamp how the federal government works. All these reductions in the federal workforce and bureaucracy are a prelude to putting the entire government in the hands of his AI company, and other subcontractors.

This is technofascism on a massive scale. Musk intends to make trillions from this, and probably give Trump a piece of the pie. Would that be illegal? Sure, but Trump can't be prosecuted for this, thanks to the Supreme Court's rulings. He has immunity even to charges of bribery.

I think this explains Musk's huge role in Trump's government, and his focus on DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency), which by executive order has been given immense power across the government at every level.

Trump could never do any of this on his own, much less even think of it. But Musk has dreamed of this for decades, and he has convinced Trump to back it to the hilt.

In the next few months, were going to see it happen. It won't be noticed at first, because it's quite complex and our journalists and media are cowered by fear and narrowness of vision. But it's already happening. And this explains the outer confusion as to what Trump is planning, what his end game is. Turns out it's not Trump's end game, it's Musk's. And Musk is way ahead of everyone on this.

Call me crazy if you like, but this is what's really happening behind the scenes. Trump will say all kinds of crazy shit to distract from it, do crazy things as well, but this is the real program. Don't get caught up in all the cruelty and threats and BS being thrown about. That's bad enough, but it's not the real point.

Turning the government of the United States into a technofascist AI kleptocracy that enriches the investor class even more is the point. And this is why all the techno-oligarchs like Bezos and Zuckerberg and Ellison are all now gung-ho Trumpers. They will get even richer themselves through the AI government programs Musk will oversee.

Trump himself is just a distraction from the real powers remaking our country. A simple pawn enriching himself in the process of turning democracy into a computer algorithm controlled by the techno-oligarchs.

Don't say you weren't warned.

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BoboBodkin's avatar

How about looking at the monies thrown to the politicians who do nothing or who are hostile and disruptive (MTG for example or a tommie tubaville just stupid and evil).

There is waste…no contest BUT you ain’t the accountant to say so musky…

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