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Please share this post! Urgent call to action: Anti-protest + Trespass bill (HF 3693 / SF 3463) This nefarious bill is sailing under many a civic activist's radar. It’s already passed committees in both houses and will soon be voted on or slipped into an omnibus. This bill increases the penalties for trespass on “critical infrastructure.” It also, incredibly, expands liability to the groups that those convicted of trespass or damages belong to. (The bills extend “civil and crimi nal liability to a group or organization that recruits, trains, aids, hires, or conspires with an individual to commit criminal trespass or damage to property,” according to a House Research summary.)  The environmental groups point out that this is a GOP, pro-fossil fuel maneuver aimed at pipeline protesters and the organizations that support their work. According to the ACLU, “this bill is unconstitutional, undemocratic, and unnecessary.” It's unnecessary; there are already ...

Please re-post this entry! 45 has nominated CIA director Mike Pompeo to replace Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State. Not a good idea. Wall of Us has a good summation of why Pompeo is unfit to serve in the American government:  "While in Congress, Mr. Pompeo argued for domestic surveillance on a wide scale , insisted that waterboarding was not torture and dismissed a hunger strike by detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, as a 'political stunt'...  Pompeo also denies climate change and has said that the Paris Climate Agreement amounted to “ bowing down to radical environmentalists ”... and he is unapologetically and consistently anti-Muslim." It's time for us to raise our voices and make sure our reps know we don't want Mike Pompeo as the nation's top diplomat. SENATE ACTION WHAT TO DO: Call your U.S. Senator. Find your Congressional representatives here: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members If you're in Minnesota: Senator ...