Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to end debt limit hostage-taking and pass the Farm System Reform Act, and tell Roku to boot OAN from its streaming TV lineup. Use the tools in the upper right-hand corner of this page (or, if you're on a cellphone, the bottom of this page) to find your Congressfolk's phone numbers and/or use the email/petition tools in the following paragraphs.
Daily Kos helps you tell your Congressfolk to “end the debt limit game of blackmail” and actually reform the whole system. And not in the way Sen. Hawley (E-MO) would – by simply exempting Social Security and Medicare from the debt limit, which won’t end right-wing hostage-taking – but by either passing the Protect Our CREDIT Act (which would force Congress to disapprove of a Presidential debt limit-lifting by a two-thirds vote) or simply repealing the debt limit altogether. I prefer the latter solution, and that’s what I’ll tell my Congressfolk to do. So a clean debt limit now, repeal it in the future, and enough of the damn drama already.
Food and Water Watch helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Farm System Reform Act, which would ban the construction of new factory farms and phase out existing ones by 2040. Don’t be the fool who says but then chicken will cost a million dollars, because big corporations raise prices whenever they feel like it; indeed, we’ve received a Master’s-level education in this truism over the last two years. And factory farms cause or enable a host of other evils, be that antibiotic abuse, animal abuse, or a complete refusal to rotate crops or try new varieties of crops. The worst evil, of course, is the evil factory farms do to the small farmer who’s trying to do the right thing and make a living.
Finally, UltraViolet helps you tell Roku to drop One America News Network (or OAN, or OANN) from its free channel lineup. You may hesitate before this task. We asked big cable corporations to drop OAN, but those were big cable corporations charging us an arm and a leg for their product; if you’re not paying for Roku, then what’s the harm? Here’s the harm: inclusion in a free channel lineup like Roku or Pluto TV gives a channel legitimacy, and invites corporate advertisers to place their wares before their viewers, which entrenches that unearned legitimacy. Anyway, who says we can’t tell Roku what to do? People who believe in private property über alles, and those people should not get all the say about everything.
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