Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

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If the FAA director got fired over a business beef AND there was an air traffic controller hiring freeze despite huge shortages AND a chaotic blitz to hollow out federal bureaucracy, and then within a week the first American airliner crashes in 16 years, you would be insane not to talk about it all.

America is under attack by the President of the United States

Sharing my letter to my Senators today, in case you'd like to use it. (Appropriate for people with Democratic senators they want to push to grow a spine.)

Expires in one week because Gd only knows what will be going on by then, send it now if you want to use it:

pastebin.com/dLq9UKU8

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov

And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

They need to hear from you.

remember, the blitzkrieg is intended to make you feel like there is nothing you can do about it; that’s the only reason to go forward in this haphazard and sloppy manner all in the first week

and the choice of that strategy tells you they are afraid you *will* do something about it

sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

If I could speak to those holding the power in the party, I would remind them of the bind they are in. They are flailing. I would remind them that there is a huge amount of untapped potential right under their nose. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...