Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to increase antitrust funding, pass real paid family/medical leave, and pass the Books Save Lives Act. 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.
First things first: Matt Stoller reports that Congress plans to reduce funding for our Justice Department’s Antitrust Division – and also plans to prevent Antitrust from collecting any fees from corporate mergers. I can’t blame Jim Jordan for this, because Democratic Sen. Shaheen wrote the legislation; yes, she’d fund Antitrust a lot more than Jim Jordan would, but we need to call our Reps and Senators and tell them to increase Antitrust funding, and not to destroy the merger fee funding mechanism. Fighting monopolies is Joe Biden’s greatest contribution to the world; corporations know it, and so do their lackeys in Congress, which is why they’re trying to destroy it. They can’t win.
Moms Rising helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass real paid family and medical leave. Congressdolts know paid family and medical leave is popular, but they don’t really want to do it, so they’ve been dressing up crap policies as good policies, and we shouldn’t let them do that. The paid family/medical plan advanced by Sen. Gillibrand in recent years, which would fund 13 weeks of paid family/medical leave for all full-time workers with a tiny payroll tax, is the minimum we should accept, and though her proposed payroll tax would cost a mere $8 a month for a worker making $50,000 annually, I’d prefer to fund it by (surprise, surprise) taxing the rich like we used to. It’s OK to say so.
Finally, Moms Rising also helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Books Save Lives Act, which would counter book-banning hysteria with federal force. When busybodies in your neighborhood raise their hackles about Black, Brown, gay, and trans books, the Books Save Lives Act would fight back by mandating that public school libraries carry books about/by “underrepresented communities” – and would make book-banning efforts into discrimination cases as well. Because that’s what they are! How many Moms for Liberty-types have been going after white male books? Tess of the d’Urbervilles was controversial, after all – and all the whining about it basically drove Thomas Hardy out of the novel-writing business, which was a profound loss to humanity.
Comments