Long story short: tell our FDA to get the lead out of our food, tell our CFPB to protect us from bank transfer scams, and tell big corporations to stop advertising on Twitter. Use the email/petition tools in the following paragraphs to communicate your will.
Consumer Reports helps you tell our Food and Drug Administration (or FDA) to limit lead in our food. There shouldn't be any lead in any food or water, but we can at least use New York state's standard of one part per million and reduce the damage we cause to our children. This'll be yet another thing that the incoming Administration won't want to do, because "all regulations are bad." But we should still communicate our will to our FDA, not least because if our FDA does nothing, we can sue them for not following our laws, because our laws don't let federal agencies do any damn thing they like, but mandate that they follow procedures. But if we say nothing, there'll be nothing to sue over.
Consumer Reports also helps you tell our Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (or CFPB) to protect us from bank transfer scams. Some crooks pose as bank clerks and (using stolen personal info) scam good Americans into wiring them money – and then banks won't reimburse them for their losses! Our CFPB can impose some common-sense protections on our behalf, but of course the incoming President is completely hostile to our CFPB – and bank executives share his hostility, throwing tantrums whenever our government forces them to do right by us. But again, if we tell them what we want, we can more easily defeat them in court when they ignore us.
Finally, Inequality Media helps you tell big corporations like Walmart, the NFL, and the Washington Post to stop advertising on The Corporation Formerly Known as Twitter. Because Twitter's become a right-wing hate site! And it's become a right-wing hate site by design of its owner! And why would anyone want to reach people who spew filth there? We should be shunning such people and forcing them to interact only with their own kind, not giving them a lifeline in the form of advertising money. One day, Mr. Musk's venality will earn him the shame and shunning he deserves, but how about we help that process along?
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