Frozen link love

Link love is late today because our heater is broken and it is cold outside so it has been hard to get my fingers to emerge from covers, much less the rest of my body.  But here I am!  There’s a sun patch next to the computer that Little Kitty and I are both sitting in right now.

There are a bunch of bad things about the Republican Tax Bill.  Punishing Americans who use public schools.  Destruction of the American social safety net. CALL.  PROTEST.  VISIT OFFICES.  FAX.  Do just a little bit more activism than you really want to do.

Don’t focus on politics of horrible tax giveaway. Look at its details-13M lose health care, wealthy get cash, middle class gets tax hike, education and Medicare imperiled, cuts to social services, no jobs or growth, more inequality. Trickle down nonsense. https://t.co/McMOr4PeMw

— Eric Holder (@EricHolder) November 30, 2017

The media is doing a horrible job of framing this– as a fight between two equal sides.  They should try reporting on the truth instead of treating this like a football game.  Here’s a great thread with  more on the topic of framing.

5 ways to push back against the tax bill from teen vogue

Even the Republicans were screwed from voting on a bill they hadn’t read.  THAT’S WHY WE HAVE REGULAR ORDER!  Because of unintended consequences!!!!!

When the bad guys weaponize outrage.  (He got reinstated)

A killer cop actually went to jail for shooting an unarmed black man in the back.  (Of course, another killer cop just got acquitted for shooting another black man with arms raised high who was pleading for his life)

Time to cancel my @siriusxm subscription and tell everyone I know to do the same.

Destructive, racist hate-speech has no place on the airwaves.

(And keep your Free Speech lecture to yourself. He has the right to say hateful things; Sirius XM has the right to not host him.) https://t.co/dQLoSytQyk

— Aaron Mahnke (@amahnke) December 7, 2017

Dear mens, your greasy demon hands are in time out

A Second Chance: This Amazing Organization Helps Disgraced Pedophiles Rebuild Their Lives By Getting Them Elected To Political Office https://t.co/b4yqpielNm pic.twitter.com/8Xr0bbvaQx

— ClickHole (@ClickHole) December 5, 2017

This is a lot of awfulness to unpack in one guy.  (Lots of trigger warnings in just one tweet!)

Grad students protest GOP tax hike

From a rally in Reading, PA.

TO REPEAT. The Manhattan DA and the NYPD say that if the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act becomes law, they cannot impose restrictions on guns in Times Square on New Years Eve, provided there is a legal permit from another state or the carrier is from a no-permit state.

— Alex Silverman (@AlexSilverman) December 6, 2017

Delayed action prescription drugs can kill even after vomiting up an overdose

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. -Stephen Jay Gould as quoted in New Scientist, March 8, 1979, p. 777

— HEC Force Ointafo (@Thurmanukyalur) December 8, 2017

Go give Stacking Pennies some ideas on how to help

Just a reminder: in the 2014 Congressional midterms, turnout was 36.4%.

If you’re upset about Congressional enabling of Trump, the tax bill, or anything else—start working *now* to register people to vote for 2018.

— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) December 2, 2017

Cards against humanity redistributes your wealth

Book cover parodies.  Check out 1984.

Read this thread on Max.  Do not let him in the library.