Angela G

#Playwright, activist, Devoted Spouse, Pack Mom, First Kitty. I write #haiku and #senryu as my warm-up and my coping skill. I cook elaborate meals because my spouse is willing to wash all the pots and pans. I assume every person is intelligent and informed and thus, I block #mansplainers at the first encounter. #vegetarian #PNW

Last Notes

2026-06-23 17:16:15 CEST

like a Dali painting
our picnic under the trees
melts in the heat
#haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (picnic) #senryu #poetry #WritingCommunity

2026-06-12 19:36:35 CEST

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Dear Senator / Representative -
I want you to get loudly on board with S134 and HR492, the Saving the Civil Service Act.
We have watched with this Republican Administration has done over the past 17 months, firing long-time technical experts across the civil service. From disease prevention experts, diplomats, and trade negotiators to forestry, farming, and IT experts, this Republican Administration operates with the illusion that expertise and mastery matter less than substantive, experience-based knowledge.
I want you to save the Civil Service. I want policies driven by technical experts who have studied these topics for years. Be they the intricacies of government decision-making in China and Iran or the changes in soil moisture content observed by Midwest wheat farmers, I want experts driving policy, not ideology.
Undo the Executive Order reclassifying 8,000 jobs into a new excepted service category called Schedule Policy/Career. Support the Civil Service and the expertise these civil servants possess.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #CivilService

2026-06-09 16:44:21 CEST

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Dear Senator / Representative --
I want an end to DHS concentration camps, and I want you to make a stand on this issue.
People being held at Camp East Montana in the Texas desert have filed a class action lawsuit regarding the squalid, unsafe, torturous conditions. People are housed in overcrowded tents, with no windows or skylights; fed spoiled, rotten food; deprived of medical care; arbitrarily subjected to solitary confinement; de facto prevented from obtaining or conferring with legal counsel; de facto prevented from contact with family members; and deprived of personal hygiene supplies.
Yet this is supposedly civil detention, not criminal imprisonment.
The conditions are deliberately created by DHS to constitute punishment; the 5th Amendment specifically prohibits state punishment without protections provided to criminal defendants.
I want you to use every procedural tool possible to halt funding for corporate-run DHS concentration camps. I want every person detained by DHS to have full due process, to be held in a federal facility, and to have access to clean water, edible food, lawyers, and phone calls to family.
Cruelty is the point of DHS's policies, and I do not want my tax dollars supporting it.
Every concentration camp DHS runs is a scar on this nation.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #ICE #DHS

2026-05-27 16:41:39 CEST

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Dear Sen/ Rep -
I object to the new rules USCIS has applied to green card applicants and I want you to fix this.
For 60 years, people could apply for green cards at a US consulate abroad, or while already in the US.
With the new USCIS policy, green card applicants already in the US will be required to leave while their cases are processed, even if they are in the country legally and regardless of whether they have spouses or children with citizenship.
This will affect families nationwide by forcing green card applicants to leave jobs, homes, and relationships for an unknown amount of time. USCIS is struggling with a backlog of visa and green card cases, and admits it does not know how currently pending green card cases will be affected.
This new policy will force survivors of trafficking, and abused and neglected children, to return to the dangerous countries they fled in order to process their applications for green cards.
Please draft legislation that at a minimum allows people already in process for their green card to stay in the US while their green card is processed. Then use every appearance in committee, on the floor, and with news and social media to highlight the ways in which the policies of the Ballroom Republicans running this current Federal Administration are harming families.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #USCIS #GreenCard

2026-05-27 01:56:58 CEST

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I was poor and living in Texas. Here is how I slept:
Damp hand towels, kept in the refrigerator. Put on a tank top, put the cold towels on your chest and shoulders, sleep in front of a fan.
Evaporating water removes heat.
When the heat wakes you, swap the towels out for fresh ones.

2026-04-10 16:39:32 CEST

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New rules for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) mean we now need legislation that specifically requires the performance of disparate impact analysis to seek out examples of lending discrimination.
I want you to require the CFPB to conduct regular examinations of the algorithms, zip code filters, and loan approval rates of banks and other lending institutions to see how these approvals break out along racial and gender lines.
This used to be the actual job of the #CFPB, but this Republican Administration just stripped disparate impact analysis from the Equal Opportunity Credit Act. Under the new rules, lending discrimination would only be considered to exist done deliberately and documented, like saying "no, because she's a woman" or "no, because he lives in a poor neighborhood" on the application.
Banks and lenders were held accountable if their policies disproportionately harmed women, people of color, or low-income borrowers. That's how the CFPB caught banks redlining and locking entire communities out of homeownership and credit.
The CFPB is abandoning its legislatively mandated mission to ensure credit markets are fair and free of discrimination and I need you to fix this. I need you to codify the examination of potential lending discrimination into law in ways that protect all Americans.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay

2026-04-08 23:13:46 CEST

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I always answer with “please be advised this is a recorded line, state your full name” in my best Robo voice. After a 5 second pause, I repeat the statement. This usually gets me off their phone lists for a solid six months.
On the off chance that it is someone I know with a new phone, they laugh and know that they’re speaking to me!

2026-02-27 02:46:34 CET

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Trying to make vegan accessible for the fediverse