Tony Stark @TonyStark@democracy.town

I don't share many petitions but this one is really important.

The American Postal Workers Union is looking for signatures for this petition to President Biden asking him to quickly fill the vacancies on the USPS Board of Governors with progressive, capable people.

If the three empty spots are filled correctly, Republicans will be in the minority and Louis DeJoy, the Postmaster General who has caused so many problems for us and postal workers, will be depowered.

Give it a sign, please. 🖋 #Unions #PostalWorkers

The American Postal Workers Union - Sign the petition for a pro-postal pro-worker Postal Service Board of Governors:
https://apwu.org/petition?source=front-page-button

Just because people are happy about being in the last couple of days of this horrible, destructive, historically corrupt administration and happy about things from a new President to a new Vice-President to a new Cabinet member or proposed policy or whatever it may be does not mean they all think every bit of work for important change is done or that the whole country's problems are fixed.

Welcome to democracy.town, a new instance on Mastodon for progressives and allies.

Our previous instance was resistance.social, which we created as an alternative to Twitter for The Resistance earlier this year. We joined Mastodon in February, 2019 on another instance.

Most of us have known each other for 4 years. We also have met many new friends along the way whom we value highly.

If you have questions or need help, please tag me or one of our moderators. You can also see https://democracy.town/about for more information.

It's time to move on to having fun, helping people be active in their communities, and helping others vote.

- Tony, instance administrator

#HeGone #WeVoted #VoteBlue

The Congress needs to review and renew the Voting Rights Act and also pass HR1/S1, bills created by Democrats to protect and expand the vote.

Progressive media could do more to publicize the specific contents of these bills and how they would combat specific types of voter suppression. And the progressive media needs to keep up the great work exposing the anti-democracy bills the Republicans in the states are trying to get through the state legislatures.

On every level, Republicans must be exposed as the allies of insurrection, trying to reverse the victory of the Biden-Harris coalition, and attempting to accomplish with voter suppression laws what the Former Guy and his insurrectionists could not get done on January 6. #ElectDemocrats #ProtectTheVote

U.S. Supreme Court set to weigh Republican-backed voting restrictions-
https://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSKBN2AO18L

Texas leadership is passing on winterizing their systems just after it's been proven once again that they need to.

But that's the Texas GOP. Just look at all the regulatory changes and effort they put in after the West Fertilizer Co explosion killed 15 and injured 160+. I'll save you the research: there wasn't any.

Texas Is Awash in Natural Gas. It Didn’t Help in the Storm; State, industry officials show little appetite to harden natural-gas systems after a winter freeze left millions without power and heat-
https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-is-awash-in-natural-gas-it-didnt-help-in-the-storm-11614184163?redirect=amp#click=https://t.co/OpeLW2Jr56

This #SongOfTheDay isn't at all political, but it speaks to things I see lurking under the surface.

I know the toxicity of division is disheartening. I know that living through a pandemic and taking care of the people we care about is hard.

I know we all wish that the unity President Biden spoke of could become a reality. I suspect we all know it won't very soon.

But we can unify. We can have heart. We can work for the better America and world we know is possible. And I also know that we are not alone.

Foo Fighters - Stranger Things Have Happened-
https://youtu.be/CEIeb85DkCs