I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night

The heinously avaricious party of dimbulbed greedheads (AKA the GOP) may well, with their medievally, obscene and lunatic tax fraud, take the lives of thousands and more. The rape and pillagement of our already weak social support system is what they’re all about – it's all they know how to do. We’re nothing but invisible, NOT rich peasants to the soulless swine on the "right." Our lives don't matter to them.

The Republican senators and reps were elected by citizens to represent them. They don’t. The fuckers are too busy bowing and scraping to their donor overlords. They're too busy lining their own silk pockets to pay attention to We The People – beyond lying and engaging in Olympic levels of prevarication, that is.

Oh and, by the by, the Orange Menace has taken down the very popular We The People petition site. It’s supposedly undergoing maintenance. Hah! I suspect our snowflake prez got tired of seeing all the demands that he show his tax returns amongst other things.

For all the their predatory, kleptomaniacal callous thievery, the Republican party can’t steal beauty. They can’t gather and horde all that is gorgeous around us. I got out for a couple walks yesterday and was, as uszh, bowled over by the razzle-dazzley gorgeousness of my working class world.

Midterms are coming. The right-wing, douchebagging goatfuckers all need to be out of their cushy-ass jobs and fast. Marching in protest and signing petitions are good things. Calling your senators and reps is molto importante. I can donate what I can to the ACLU, Southern Poverty Law Center. Natural Resources Defense Council and Planned Parenthood.

What else can I do?

I just found a very cool site – Carpool Vote.

Carpool Vote connects volunteer drivers with anybody who needs a ride to claim their vote.

Carpool Vote launched in 2016 to fight back against voter suppression. Many of our riders need a driver after losing full protection of the Voting Rights Act in 2013, as state governments no longer need permission to change election rules. The 2016 US Presidential election was the first since this change has happened.

People who used our service in 2016 faced several barriers to getting to the polls. These included:

•     Closure of polling places in lower-income communities of color.
•     Inaccessibly remote locations for would-be voters to get a photo ID to register.
•     Shrinking early voting periods.
•     Prohibitive absentee ballot procedures.

These barriers - along with others introduced since the change - affected everybody but especially people of color, people with disabilities, young people, elderly people, and women.

You can sign up to be a driver or a rider. Massachusetts, thank the little baby Bast, isn't exactly a hotbed of voter suppression but I'm def gonna sign up to drive.

What about y'all?

Joe Hill – Joan Baez