phone call timing

[redbird]

This is a brief reminder that if you only want to talk to your representatives' voicemail, call outside local business hours. (Wherever you live, a congressmember's DC office is on East Coast time). After leaving a lot of messages in the last couple of months, I'd concluded that all my calls would go to voicemail, whether I called during the day or at 1 p.m.

Then one of Rep. Pressley's staffers answered the phone on Tuesday, which threw me off-script for a moment. As far as I know, they're counting calls, and your senator might care where in the state you're calling from, but a call at 7 a.m. or midnight counts as much as one during the day.

Send Trump hate mail?

[wispfox]

 Hat tip to Chop Wood, Carry water (as a reminder, I am not on other social media so cannot spread the information that way):

"On March 15th, many people will mail Donald Trump a postcard that publicly expresses our opposition to him. And we, in vast numbers, from all corners of the world, will overwhelm him with his unpopularity and failure. We will show the media and the politicians what standing with him — and against us — means. And most importantly, we will bury the White House post office in pink slips, all informing Donnie that he’s fired.

 

Each of us — every protester from every march, each congress calling citizen, every boycotter, volunteer, donor, and petition signer — if each of us writes even a single postcard and we put them all in the mail on the same day, March 15th, well: you do the math.

 

No alternative fact or Russian translation will explain away our record-breaking, officially-verifiable, warehouse-filling flood of fury. Hank Aaron currently holds the record for fan mail, having received 900,000 pieces in a year. We’re setting a new record: over a million pieces in a day, with not a single nice thing to say.

 

So sharpen your wit, unsheathe your writing implements, and see if your sincerest ill-wishes can pierce Donald’s famously thin skin.

 

Prepare for March 15th, 2025, a day hereafter to be known as #TheIdesOfTrump

 

Write one postcard. Write a dozen! Take a picture and post it on social media tagged with #TheIdesOfTrump !

 

Then, on March 15th, mail your messages to:

 

President (for now) Donald J. Trump

 

The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

 

Washington, DC 20500"