A thing you can do to express your outrage at mass shootings is supporting @MomsDemand and #gunsense candidates, supporting journalism outlets that report on the deeper causes behind the crisis. And vote.
Reminder: Rick Scott has been a reliable friend to the NRA. So has Marco Rubio.
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1/ People seem to be confused as to why tribal Native Americans often don't have traditional mailing addresses. I'll try and explain a bit: motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
2/ First many reservations are huge and remote and don't get much state infrastructure, like paved secondary etc roads. Tribal members often have to go hundreds of miles a few times a month to get mail.
3/ For people living in extreme remote places—and especially tribes that somewhat retain a nomadic existence—there's no USPS person coming to them or anywhere near them.
This block may be SF's most filthy, but many many many blocks are truly disgusting. And every block in Mission/SOMA is trash strewn always. nytimes.com/2018/10/08/us/…
2/ For the 435 House seats, there are 239 women still in the running. That's almost as many as every filed in any previous primary.
3/ There are 36 gubenatorial races. 61 women filed, and 16 women are still in the running. That's more than ever filed or got to general, by a long shot:
So now we have 650+ law professor against Kavanaugh. And the ABA. This list is pretty damming: nytimes.com/interactive/20…
If those teaching law at the highest institutions, some of whom appear before the Supreme Court, think he displayed a disqualifying lack of judicial temperment, how can SCOTUS withstand that kind of black eye?
The only real power SCOTUS has is that that the people's trust invest in it.