where are your gloves and your helmet?

Nine phone calls today, the majority of them to my representative because there's a lot of stuff going down in the House, specifically.

Should probably have done more but I don't like to take too much time away from my desk to make these calls unless it's lunchtime. Maybe a few more later if I'm feeling angry enough but tbh I'm dealing with cramping that's either day 10 of my period or the aftermath of a biopsy yesterday and I have about enough energy left for either exercise or Congressyelling, not both.

EDIT: Make it eleven. The new ones were to Governor Healey's office and the Mass. Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Education, where I *hope* I left a message with the right commissioner's office re the April 3rd Title VI compliance letter about 'give up DEI programs or your school funding goes away'.

Less yelling on the non-Congress calls. Still did about fifteen minutes of tai chi afterwards.

started phone calls to Congressbeings today at 9:12
finished my thirteenth call at 9:39
not really sure it's safe for me to phone a live human being at this point as I fear I may still be in 'you have two minutes and you have to include your name, address, and phone number' mode

I have made *checks phone* 231 calls to lawmakers of various stripes since February 3rd, I think maybe five of them were to local officials and the rest were to congressbeings
with the exception of Atty General Campbell all of them have gone to voicemail
starting to feel like it's my sixth or seventh day of a Disneyworld vacation, not because of the rides or the mouse imagery but because that's the point when you've heard the ride safety spiel so many times you reflexively start reciting the words along with the announcer
"and thank you again, for reaching out"

blrrrhghghgghgh

Congratulate me- I may be on my very first government watch list!

https://theintercept.com/2019/04/29/family-separation-protests-surveillance/

I followed the link in the second paragraph. One of the protests the Orange One's stooges at Looking Glass Cyber Solutions 'gathered information on' was the one I attended at City Hall Plaza back in June. They don't have the names of individual people who attended, just the protests they were planning to watch and analyze and report back on, along with 'X number RSVP'ed, X number said they were interested in going'. I don't think the lawsuits that got this information have gotten the names of people who may have been monitored yet. I'm assuming they scraped the names of everyone who used a website to say 'I'm going to attend this protest', though.

... I think I actually recognized the voice of the intern who answered the phone at my Congressional representative's office this morning. I'm pretty sure it was the same guy who answered when I called to let Rep. Clark know that I supported the anti-Bannon bill.